Re: Hybrids?
This subject always ends in the same way...an argument.Originally Posted by wesleybrouwer
If animals can successfully breed and produce fertile young, they are usually a stronger animal overall, and obviously, God or Mother Nature (however you swing) is cool with it too. Line breeding is much more detrimental in the long run, but you can't convince some people of that, even though pure bred dogs and their line bred issues are well known.
Some folks seem to think that keeping two varieties of D. tinctorious (for example) from different sides of a river seperate, because one has leg stripes and the other has leg spots, has some significance in this life and should be observed at all cost.
Personally, I find the whole thing silly. It is as if someday we're gonna have this huge reintroduction party and turn everything loose, and they all have to go back exactly where they are from, and if you turn them loose somewhere else, Al Gore gets to publicly flog you on a special live edition of Sixty Minutes.
If someone wants to keep their animal line pure, great. But if someone else wants to hybridize something, that should be fine too. The good thing is that they can whine and moan all they want...and that's about it.
If I could have a ten inch toad colored like a bumblebee toad, I wouldn't give a **** how it was produced, or where it came from.
To the mods: When you censor the word c - r - a - p, it makes people think I used another word, which I didn't.
