Biologist Explains Reptile Color & Morphs

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Wild type reptiles are very cool, but there are also an incredible variety of unusual and beautiful morphs like albino, piebald, leucistic, hypo, etcetera that are dazzling to behold. So what is really going on with these beautiful and unusual color morphs? I'll tell you.
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@ClintsReptiles 2 года назад

Congress is making changes to the America COMPETES Act, and now is a great time to take action! Please check out this update from the USARK channel and subscribe while you're there: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--Cv84z1Ss0Q.html I also hope to see you today at the Wasatch Reptile Expo! wasatchreptileexpo.com/WRE/Page_1x.html

@teddypawncrumps23 2 года назад

Hey clint! You wrote "xantrophores" but say "xanthophores", which one is it? I wanna be sure haha

@AllCanadianReptileGirl 2 года назад

Fascinating stuff! You hear lots of folks talking about how to breed for particular morphs (especially ball pythons). By breaking down the types of pigments and what they do, this is a great introduction to the 'why' instead of the 'what'. Great video!!

@KimberDillon4 2 года назад

I love these science-centric videos! Keep 'em coming please! Thank you so much for being a kind and positive advocate of reptiles and animals who are so widely misunderstood....and mistreated. You are affecting a lovely change.

@krisblunden1642 2 года назад

Fun fact here in nova scotia we have an island where hyper melanism occurs far more often in(maritime) Garter snakes than it does anywhere else and we're talking a significant portion of its population so not a small margin.

@darcieclements4880 2 года назад

Hypermelanism is very common in nature, but I have never seen it in a garter, that sounds pretty cool. I would imagine they use it to help warm up given the latitude. Michigan has hypermelanisic hognose for the same reason

@birbdad1842 2 года назад

Must be an evolutionary advantage and maybe in a couple decades there will be a new local type that's taken over the usual coloration.

@herpermike_ 2 года назад

I've always thought that a lot of the genes are thrown out there in nature kinda to see how it does and if it ends up being advantageous and does well in the current ecosystem, then it will be put into the gene pool and will be more likely to catch on in a small area lol. My uncle and I have talked about the ball pythons and the genes they've been throwing out and if we, humans, weren't involved, what a normal, wild type ball python would look like in a thousand years lol!

@Chaotic_Pixie 2 года назад

I love how understanding color genetics in reptiles can help the understanding of color genetics in other animals. Most people don't realize that the common black house cat is actually a hypomelanistic tabby. Very few domestic black cats are truly, purely black. I also bet a lot of people don't realize Leucism exists in humans too. Vitaligo is a form of leucism and a lot of people who get mistaken for having albinism are actually leucistic and I've even met people who grew up thinking they had albinism but they actually had leucism.

@SoliRhymesWithJulie 2 года назад

"skin or feathers of reptiles." I see what you did there...

@maleahtortilla587 2 года назад

I love this video!!! I’m a zoology major and this stuff gets me so excited! One suggestion- have the picture examples be a little more clear on what they are. Put some text that says what it is and try to have a picture of everything you’re talking about so we can see and really understand it better. The pictures were a little confusing in that I didn’t always know if I was looking at the thing that was being talked about or not

@remi.d5462 2 года назад

Please make more videos about zoology in general, it's so great !

@maggiepie8810 2 года назад

Maybe a fun fact? There are in fact four different genes for 'piebaldism' in horses. Tobiano-Most common and heterozygous. Overo-Most commonly seen in the American paint horse. Heterozygous. It's technically an incomplete dominant, but homozygous foals (born completely white) have a severe genetic birth defect, thus they won't survive longer than a few days. Sabino-Incomplete dominant, where homozygous animals can range from almost white to all kinds of eye-catching patterns. Splash-Commonly referred to as recessive, but according to some research it's more likely to be an incomplete dominant. Homozygous animals have blue eyes together with a very distinct white pattern, and a single copy of the gene is thought to possibly be responsible for blue eyes in otherwise dark coloured horses (with miniscule white markings).

@kimpanther5110 2 года назад

Don't forget about the White Spotting genes! I think there's been like 30 discovered as of now? It was initially thought there were several Sabino genes (which is why it's dictated sb1, researchers were expecting more) but alas, it's a totally different gene! I wanna say tobiano, sb1, roan, and White Spotting genes are all KIT mutations? That's as far as my genetics knowledge goes though 😅 It's a cool example of phenotype vs genotype! Arabians and Thoroughbreds can be phenotypically "Sabino" but genotypically not. Sato the TB is W5 while Rhevelation the Arabian is W15

@maggiepie8810 2 года назад

@@kimpanther5110 You're absolutely correct, and my knowledge on sabino was clearly outdated. KIT and leopard (spotting) are ones I didn't know how to explain without the help of pictures, so I know that I simplified things quite a bit, you're correct. I was just trying to focus on the genes that appear to look the most like the piebald gene in python regius. I think the reptile morph the most similar to (some) leopard horses would be palmetto in corn snakes? Considering that snakes don't have legs, would you describe a pie sided corn snake as more similar to a single copy of Sb1, or two copies of splashed white?

@reywashere5284 2 года назад

Your name beautifully matches your comment.

@maggiepie8810 2 года назад

@@reywashere5284 Because magpies are technically 'pied' corvids? 😂

@reywashere5284 2 года назад

@@maggiepie8810 Yup!

@kiradeki3561 2 года назад

I have a piebald dog. He's a "Parti" colored Yorkshire Terrier, and the "Parti Gene" is, from what I can tell, basically just a form of piebaldism that, like with dalmations, eventually leads to more color spotting as the animal ages. He's about 9 now, and he looks pretty white with just five large color spots when his fur is long, because the smaller spots only color the base of his hairs, but when he's short cropped he has a bunch of black and brown flecks in the spaces between his large color spots.

@spots6450 2 года назад

Actually, in dogs those flecks you see in white markings are unrelated to the white markings themselves! It’s a completely separate gene that controls what is called ticking (those little spots) and roaning (a mixing of coloured and white hairs like seen in Australian Cattle Dogs), which ‘undoes’ the piedballism in small areas in a way that causes the colour to develop as the dog ages (I don’t think it’s known how it worlds physically). So a dog with any amount of white can have those little spots, not just a dog with a large amount of white spotting like your little guy! The best way to tell the difference between markings caused by ticking or the piedballism is if it’s present at birth, because if it is then it’s from the piedballism but if it develops with age it’s ticking.

@Writz. 2 года назад

hi Clint you are my favorite reptile RU-vidr

@ClintsReptiles 2 года назад

Thank you so much! There are some great ones out there, so that's a huge compliment indeed.

@RachaelBerezin 2 года назад

this is a stinkin rad video

@bryanadamblystone 2 года назад

I am a huge fan and have many pets myself!! My wife and I love watching the reptile equivalent of Mr. Rogers! My son watches and loves learning more about the pets we keep. Thank you for your enthusiasm and honest takes on reptiles!! This household is team Clint!!!

@theletterm8865 Год назад

Thanks to my love of languages and figuring out what words mean by their Latin, Greek and other roots, I was able to correctly guess all four of those cells at the start (xanthe for yellow, erythros for red, irido for iridescence/most other colors of the rainbow, and melas for black). Very fun to do! Regardless, great video. Particularly helpful when people think that white snakes are always albino, lol. Love your channel, man!

@talandar5773 2 года назад

When I was a kid there was a male axanthic green anole that lived around the gutter drain of my house, he had kind of a turquoise hue most of the time. I used to go check up on him every few days.

@huntercollum869 2 года назад

I found a hypermelanistic hognose snake this week. Thought it was a cotton mouth until I got a good look at him I couldn't make out even the slightest pattern under full natural light just deep black

@ClintsReptiles 2 года назад

That's amazing!

@robinsonrom 2 года назад

Was it an Eastern by chance? They're pretty dark, like a cotton mouth.

@huntercollum869 2 года назад

@@robinsonrom I'm almost certain it was. A little hard to say for sure because it really was so dark it had no distinguishable markings on it but the only photos I've found of a hognose snake that dark said they were eastern. Never seen one quite like that though would have even been very dark even for a cottonmouth very similar color to a dark black racer

@krisg1281 2 года назад

This was super helpful! I'm low-key scared of ball pythons but the moment I saw a piebald I thought "I can get over it". They're so dang gorgeous 😍

@loriw2661 2 года назад

I hope you can push through that fear one day. Ball Pythons are the least “dangerous” snakes of them all, in my opinion.

@dreadnaughtswake 2 года назад

I remember seeing a leucistic alligator down at the aquarium in Manteo, NC. I’m not sure if it’s still there since I haven’t been down there in a long time, but I felt like sharing this here.

@sarahmickel4921 2 года назад

Wait, so is my tricolor beagle displaying piebaldism then?? That’s honestly super rad.

@zacg_ 2 года назад

In some respects I understand the appeal of morphs but I agree with you Clint in that I typically find myself liking the wild type colors and patterns most. This is especially true when you look at Burmese pythons, true red-tailed boas and rainbow boas. I've personally never understood the appeal of Brazilian Rainbow Boa morphs when the wild type is already so breathtaking. That said, they do make for an interesting discussion of mendelian and more advanced genetics.

@dacisky 2 года назад

You might want to go further into this topic and explain color changes and domestication and the alteration of the fight/flight response in domesticated animals. I have found this subject to be fascinating but a lot of viewers will never have heard of it.

@darcieclements4880 2 года назад

Some of that early research has been debunked as experimental artifacts and more of a correlation than causation with both being generated through the domestication process rather than directly impacting each other. But would be a good history of piece. Also, always struck me as odd that piebald snakes don't act like dopamine bleaching and instead are more flighty... Would love to know what is happening with those

@conlon4332 6 месяцев назад

I'd love to see a video explaining all/as many as you can of the Royal/Ball Python morphs. I know there's a lot, so it would be a very long video and great undertaking, maybe you could make it a multi-part series, but it would be so helpful as it's so hard to find anything that explains them all! A picture and a brief description of what causes it if known, as well as how it's inherited (dominant, recessive, codominant, incomplete dominant) would be so awesome! I'd appreciate it more than I can put into words!

@ClintsReptiles 6 месяцев назад

We have a four-part series.

@conlon4332 6 месяцев назад

@@ClintsReptiles I can't find it. Can you link it or at least tell me what it's titled? Thanks!

@conlon4332 6 месяцев назад

@@ClintsReptiles Do you mean the genetics videos? I really enjoyed those, but they only covered a handful of morphs. I'd love something that goes through what all the Ball/Royal Python morphs look like.

@flarestar14 2 года назад

Genetics are so fascinating, thank you for taking time to teach us about these! I love it

@ricardoroquefelle5982 2 года назад

thank u for this video! finally understood why that snake guy who visited us back in elementary school told us the carrot is like the giant yellow snake he brought to show us :D

@sweetjklol 2 года назад

Wow this is so thorough, I ended up taking notes! Also love the name 'Shovel Face' for a hognose. Thank you!

@LukeMcGuireoides 9 месяцев назад

You should do a video explaining why different reptiles have evolved the colors and patterns that they have.

@k2a2l2 3 месяца назад

leucistic animals are so beautiful!! i love the contrast of white with dark eyes

@THEOMEGALIVE 2 года назад

Hi Clint! It’s the Millisons from Alabama/Georgia! (We had the grasshoppers and Elvis the spoiled BTM). Anyways I think it would be helpful to the public if you did a few videos showing the real life size difference between baby large reptiles (black throats/Tegus) and the adults. So people know what they are buying if they do so

@neilagrawal1561 2 года назад

I feel like I'm back in school and I couldn't be happier

@pythonalley8882 2 года назад

Clint you are the best. Don’t really know what else to say. You make learning fun and interesting

@butterflyk3542 2 года назад

I need Clint to Voice act for some kind of good hearted teacher that makes a lot of appearances in some kind of show involving animals 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@KacieRiley 2 года назад

“And that’s pretty much everything you’d like to breed” 😂

@nyves104 2 года назад

that's so cool to learn about! thanks for all the work you do!

@freshboy3968 2 года назад

Clint saving geckos from being monitor food, all in the day's work.

@nataliesreptileroom3348 2 года назад

Excellent idea for a topic. Love your videos and you keep them interesting from start to finish!

@queso_and_dragons 2 года назад

I love these types of videos! It's always super fun to learn more about genetics and color morphs.

@luwildy 2 года назад

Thank you for this! Extremely helpful!

@Gizathecat2 2 года назад

🐍I really enjoyed this one! Learned a lot! Thank you Clint!🐍

@gunzandpleb9329 2 года назад

Loved seeing you at the reptile show!! Your amazing

@jollykean9973 2 года назад

I learned so much in this video, id love to see more like this 👍

@GigaDavy91 2 года назад

Such a cool video, i wish i could see more of this kind of content ❤️

@majesticwerm7813 2 года назад

This was pretty fascinating and also helped me understand some of the terms I see used when describing different morphs.

@heartlandreptiles 2 года назад

Probably the best video explaining morphs that I’ve seen!

@BrycenHallford 2 года назад

Awesome content! Love the info! Wish I was able to make the drive over to see you at the expo today! One day soon we’ll make the trip from Boise to your reptile room!!

@noahwilcox5619 2 года назад

This is a great video. These extra informatively formatted videos are underrated!

@andyhsong 2 года назад

Thanks for this video!!! This is excellent info!

@Arvaamaton 2 года назад

I’m soooo happy you did this!!! Awesome 🤩 Thank you Clint! (Even it included ball pythons 🐍 but the Hognoses ❤️)

@samhaines8228 2 года назад

thanks for clearing that up!

@reevesreptilians 2 года назад

Great video Clint , really enjoyed it 👍

@pumpkinchow 2 года назад

Great video and awesome information for any pet keepers. Clint your the man 🤘🏻🤘🏻

@yussofmazahy3732 2 года назад

i love understanding the science behind each gene and how it affects the animals. amazing informative video! please make more!

@juliegoddard4846 2 года назад

Thank you for such an interesting insight into colour traits.

@thesnapperkeeper 2 года назад

Great video.Loved the Hypo Snapper picture

@CoriMultipass 2 года назад

Really interesting stuff!! I feel like I knew some of it, but I definitely have a much better understanding now! Gorgeous snakes, too!!

@bobbiec2829 2 года назад

Such a cool topic! I'd love a part 2! I got a one year old make lavender hognose from Tinley in March and would like to learn more about his color morph and other morphs not covered in this video 😊

@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030 2 года назад

Awesome video clint

@NoopyP Год назад

Thanks for the great explanation ^^

@canttriforceforcrap 2 года назад

This was super helpful..I'll be sharing this for my friends instead of attempting to explain lol. Also , your tie!!! Love it !!

@BrooklynHudson 2 года назад

The eyes on that leucistic ball python... WOW! Beautiful... almost silver.

@pamelapilling6996 2 года назад

Awesome video Clint 👍💐

@caughtafaygo 2 года назад

Thank you for the information

@medusasxlair 2 года назад

I love this and I love that you exist and love doing this and learning all of this because it’s the reason that I breed reptiles. To learn and love😊

@petric334 2 года назад

I love these explainer type videos.

@loriw2661 2 года назад

This was fantastic. I love to know the correct scientific reasons for things. Thanks Clint!!

@birbdad1842 2 года назад

Very interesting. My neon day geckos look especially spectacular when the sun shines on them. That's what actually makes the color.

@allenkeith7160 Месяц назад

Albino vs Leucistic? I only recently even learned of the word and the differences of Leucistic animals, and always thought something was a bit funny with "Albino" animals with colorations. This definitely clarified a few things for me, nice.

@PitsFam 2 года назад

Please clarify what the little bug is that we are seeing on the closeup of the BEL. Fantastic explanation of morphs!

@reggie8370 2 года назад

Awesome!!!!!!! A credible person discussing this subject!!!

@zlaynie 2 года назад

AMAZING tyvm!

@sanderpoel1977 2 года назад

Thank you so mutch for this video, greets from The netherlands

@jennifermalcolm1985 2 года назад

thank you for this amazing g video

@brianparker5323 2 года назад

When you brought out the pied I half expected a wild Dav Kaufman to appear.

@hi_tech_reptiles 2 года назад

OMG! I have been researching this extensively, even the variety of forms of albinism, tyrosamine, layers of pigment et al. Boas inspired me as there's so many types of T+ and T- albinism, and there's so many forms I didn't realize have been classified, not to mention hypererythrism (blood boas) Thanks for this breakdown!!!

@jmembang2467 2 года назад

Finally get to understood these stuff!

@Garcia-elf 2 года назад

Leucism can affect the eyes, particularly the structure. For example, mutations on Mitf can cause microphalmia

@ChelseaDewey 2 года назад

I love this so much.

@clintexplains5327 2 года назад

A great explanation indeed, Reptile Clint! 😉

@danielhergert7446 2 года назад

Self love is important.

@aurieamoore5823 Год назад

WOW! THIS MADE SO MUCH MAKE SENSE!!

@monicascholes7138 2 года назад

LOL The train. I pass that train all the time. XD

@kezibythelake 2 года назад

I love this video.

@robertmorgan2723 2 года назад

A nice key for snack discovery

@chrisdaignault9845 2 года назад

Very cool.

@ulihi5087 2 года назад

Wow this is stuff I never knew before!

@paranoiarpincess 2 года назад

Speaking of morphs, My son has been saving up for years to ge able to afford his snake and he has finally has enough. The Ball Python morph he wants is a BEL and I was curious whether you still breed BELs. Being from Canada, I know you wont let us adopt from you but I'm curious if you have any tips on finding them and careidng for them.

@MPRbyHamlin 2 года назад

Hi if I may jump in here. You can get a BEL by breeding Lesser to lesser (this will give a white snake with blue eyes) Mojove to mojave (same) Mojove to lesser (same) And fire to fire ( which is the same but with black eyes and specs of subtle yellow) If you get the super lesser form then you can get a snake with what they call bug eyes. BELs are in most cases the super form however if its a blue eyed white snake you want.. id personally pick one that is mojave x lesser. And the care is the same as you would give a normal ball python. I hope this helps

@darcieclements4880 2 года назад

@@MPRbyHamlin I just have to say how nice it is to see someone share this kind of knowledge to help someone else find a healthy animal. Makes my day

@MPRbyHamlin 2 года назад

@@darcieclements4880 I just like to help where I can. Good people helped and still help me... its just nice if we can all look out for a brother or sister now and then.

@Yoofilos 2 года назад

Hi Clint, this is a very excellent video! I love it However there's something I want to ask, you know that there's a plenty of "blue morph" colouration to many captive animals ranging from Iguanas, Tree Boas, Frogs, even Budgies and Love birds, all these animals have a wild-type colouration that are mainly green, could it be the "blue morph" is some sort of Axanthism? Or it is a little bit more complicated than that?

@ClintsReptiles 2 года назад

You've got it!

@Yoofilos 2 года назад

@@ClintsReptiles oh that's nice, be right back I'm going to make Blue Kakapos

@darcieclements4880 2 года назад

Yup, that is how they happen 😁. You picking up on that shows how good the video turned out.

@HeavenlyiceDream 2 года назад

i have a stunning 2 tone blue garter snake. his mom is green and his dad was blue and black. Koya is blue and a kinda turqouise colour with checkered pattern. i love my blue boy lol

@GoAwayBrandon 2 года назад

Nice Sheldon Cooper reference!

@houndgirl7365 2 года назад

I love Genetics in my bio class it was always fun to get an offspring and disect what the parents were based off of probability. In this case we counted corn kernels on the cob the genes were (yellow, purple, rough, and smooth). It makes a lot of sense and I love getting to deal with probabilities especially when it comes to morphs. Right now we have a leopard cinnamon het pied and het lav that we are pairing to a female sandblast super pastel possible yellowbelly 50% het pied girl we are aiming for some urban camos but without getting any sterlings since 2 cinnamon= increase problems with kinks. That said I always enjoy it and explaining to my loved ones why we should get certain pairs. I would love to play roulette and get my hands on some 50% het monsoons at a fair price or some monarchs...maybe zebras the possibilities are endless ^^

@bipolaryx Год назад

underrated video

@LiamLivesOn 2 года назад

While some of this went over my head this was a great video and I had wondered why albino animals eyes are usually red, that answer suprised me 😅

@justinpaul3110 2 года назад

This was INCREDIBLY helpful. Now, about a Pectinata video... Or redfoot tortoise...

@jeffreyadamo 2 года назад

Hey Clint, the clickbait way to make this thumbnail would be to have a picture of a reptile photoshopped into a crazy color scheme.

@CIoudStriker 2 года назад

How do leopard geckos look so permanently smug? Like they know something you don't.

@SeverusSnape12345 2 года назад

I have seen one be mislabelled as an albino by a breeder in a youtuber's video of a reptile con. It was piebald with patches of yellow and black eyes. It was a gorgeous snake. But not albino. I had an albino corn snake which was light pink with darker pink patterns. She was gorgeous.

@samwill7259 2 года назад

The rainbow boa has crystals in it? Alright, which DND game did we pull this one out of guys?

@catzkeet4860 2 года назад

No. Rainbow boa SCALES contain crystals of guanine causing the rainbow interference patterns.

@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin 2 года назад

Xanthochromism (yellowness) is common in avian dinosaurs (birds), look up "yellow cardinal" for a treat. Yellow Pac-Man frogs are also xanthochromatic.