One thing we don’t necessarily consider in the hobby is that yes inbreeding occurs in the wild, but the one thing we don’t apply is ‘natural culling’. Predators in the wild will naturally goop after the weakest so it’s almost a 0% chance that they would make it to adulthood. Yes some inbred specimens might make it to adulthood, however they won’t have as noticeable if any anomalies because any animal need to be in tip top shape to survive to adulthood. That being said those that do make it will reproduce abd get to pass on those Genetics just not any harmful effects because they themselves dodged most or all I’ll effects. Why don’t we see that many albino reptiles in the wild is because they don’t blend in as often so most never really get to reproduce. In our hobby the only ‘control’ we have is ourselves…I don’t believe a corkscrewing spider ball python would make it in the wild captivity yes wild no. That is the major difference. Not only that but snakes travel and they can hybridize with other snakes. It’s all really fascinating and I hope a non biased study goes into it I mean I know the American bison was down to 100 animals which means a lot of inbreeding occurred there but I’m sure their genetic material was highly monitored to ensure the best pairings that would result in the least amount of possible defects cause by the pairing.
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