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rivera5454 rivera5454
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11 years ago
If the pale snakes are better camouflaged and the dark snakes stick out and get predated on more then why hasn't selection killed of the darker colour scheme? (the population is isolated so it's not gene flow).

Frequency dependant selection is supposed to be the answer but there are two kinds, positive and negative.
Don't they both do the same thing?
Please explain the difference between the frequency dependent selections.
Also the snakes are mostly pale coz substrate it pale and the dark snakes stick out.
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11 years ago
1.  Have you got natural predators... like meercat?
2.  Are they in the wild?  Or,
3.  Cosily caged?
4.  Natural selection?  Or force bred?
5.  Snakes do not perceive color, only body heat.
6.  No snake has ever been made out to be racist.
7.  In laboratory conditions I can breed, black and white spotted, like fox terriers.
8.  Rethink and re post.
Peace.
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11 years ago
In some cases the dark snakes have indeed been "wiped out" by natural selection. There are populations that do not have any dark colored snakes. If there is polymorphism in a population, and some are dark and some are lighter colored, it may be because the habitat is not identical over the entire area.  Some parts of it, for example, may have a dark background, such as volcanic rock, that favors dark colored snakes, and other parts may lack such backgrounds, and are therefore better suited for light colored snakes.  Further, if the snakes are primarily nocturnal, then they can be any color and it won't make any difference, because few predators can see the snakes anyway.
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