| sugar_glider | Дата: Суббота, 26.03.2011, 14:04 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| A white tip sugar glider has a white tip at the end of it's tail. This amount of white varies from just a few hairs to 2 inches or more. The average white tip seen in captivity at this time is about 1/4-1 inch long. It is believed that the white tip tail we see showing up in captive bred gliders is a sign of the subspecies Petaurus breviceps ariel. Most white tips born in captivity have come from normal color parents, with no documentation of white tip in their histories. There are few long standing and documented breeding programs working with this color at this time. As a result, there is almost no information available as to how this gene is passed on. It does appear to be recessive to normal, but it is not known if other genes are involved in producing this color. We do know that white tip is NOT a single recessive gene. IF white tips were a single recessive trait, all offspring from two what tip parents would have been white tipped. A handful of breeders have paired white tips together. Most of these pairings have produced "normal" gliders, while a small hand full of white tip to white tip pairings have produced white tip joeys. Even those pairings that did produce white tips did not produce white tips 100% of the time. This means that even though the parents are white tips, it is unknown if their offspring is a "het" or not since we do not know how the trait comes to be expressed. White tips can appear on any color variation or mutation. As of November 2006, standard colored gliders with white tips are starting out at about $300.00, and going up from there depending on the amount of white on the tail. Colored sugar gliders with white tips do sell for a more depending on the color of the sugar glider.
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