What really is the "Jungle" morph?

[najt]

I was just wondering what the "Jungle" morph really is?
T thought it was the "Stripe" on the back but i have heard that Jungle is not just the striping back?

Is this a Jungle?!

// andreas
www.reptilia.tk

[HeavenlyHerps]

This is what I have been going by when I look at Jungles.

Description of Jungle
The Jungle gene has been shown to cause pattern aberrancies and enhanced color. This trait passes in a co-dominant fashion although this terminology is the subject of debate. However, the mutation appears in approximately 50% of the next generation when bred to a non-Jungle animal. There is also a "super" form of this mutation which is easily distinguished and stunning. A Super Jungle will pass on the trait to 100% of the offspring when bred to a non-Jungle animal. You can learn more by visiting the web site of Pete Kahl who originally imported the Jungle boa into the U.S:

Pete Kahl - pkreptiles.com

The boa that you have pictured I think would fall as a Jungle but I would ask and expert who has been breeding for a while for that trate.

[dberes]

To my understanding "Jungle" is a bloodline of boas that came from sweden. As far as everything else goes about the jungles.... I'm still scratching my head and going... "huh?" I'm hoping to see them in person at the anaheim show in september so I can see what the big craze is about them. Majority of the photos aren't doing any justice for me.

Later,
Drenton

[dberes]

Forgot to add... Unless your boa is related to the swedish bloodline of jungles... I wouldn't try calling it one, because you might start a riot ::) Beautiful boas by the way!

Later,
Drenton

[denny_rimes]

The whole Jungle "issue" seems to be a sensitive one these days.  True "Jungle" boas are descendants of a particular bloodline that, I believe, originated in Sweden.  So if your particular boa is not of that lineage, it is NOT a Jungle boa.

I have seen Jungle and Salmon Jungle boas in person and there is definitely something different about them.  Unfortunately it is somewhat difficult to capture the difference in a photo.  Another point of controversy with the Jungles the the variably expressed abberencies.  Some of them have a great deal of connected saddles and stripes, BUT some of them (and this is where the whole Jungle thing gets a little sticky) have barely perceptible abberencies, but when bred, will throw babies that are definitely a Jungle.  ALL of the Jungles that I've seen have a unique coloration that defines them as well.  

So even though your boa looks like a Jungle....If you cannot definitely trace it's ancestors to the Swedish bloodline, I would call it something else.  

Denny ;D

[najt]

Okey thank you all for the fast answers.

Iam from sweden so i can call it Jungle then.. *joking*

This is not my animal but it is a animal from a friend of mine. I just start this tread because i was unsure.

// andreas
www.reptilia.tk