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Kei Island?

Postby Hockeyrulz48 » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:52 pm

So this looks like a Kei Island to me what do you guys think?

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Postby Hockeyrulz48 » Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:53 pm

I don't know why pics don't work so just copy and paste it in the url
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Postby NomadOfTheHills » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:18 pm

The head looks very scincoides to me.
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Postby Lucifer_Spades » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:26 pm

That was the one I posted up before. no one was real sure what it was. Most agreeed it was likely a uniquly beautiful mutt. Many were leaning towards a KeixIJ or EasternxIJ.
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Postby Graniteer » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:32 pm

I don't think it's a pure Kei; I was looking at some other pics of Kei's, and this one doesn't have the speckling effect that most seem to have. It strikes me more as a faded Indo or something along those lines. Just my two cents.
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Postby Hockeyrulz48 » Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:45 pm

Mm.. ya not sure either
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Postby Fatal_S » Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:53 pm

Not a kei. Not a pure animal. It's an interesting mutt though.
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Postby Zach » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:30 pm

It is a pure animal, and is almost assuredly wild caught. This is once again the PERFECT example of why Glenn Shea considers Merauke and IJ the exact same species. An animal very similar to this is ID'd as a T. gigas evanescens in the bluey bible. Some might call it an IJ, some might call it a Merauke, but to Glenn, they are one in the same. This animal comes from western papua where both IJ's and Merauke's are found in the wild. The animal could seriously pass as either.....if I were forced to choose, I would choose IJ.

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