GeckoX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>Want to hear something odd? A couple of weeks ago my female gerbil
>gave birth to a SINGLE baby. If that isn't strange enough, when it started
>growing fur, its hair was black!! When the parents are both white! I have
>looked at all possibilities...such as the female mating with another gerbil.
>but that just isnt possible since i have had them, alone, in a tank for over
>6 months now.
>
>How can this be?!
>
>Jason
The most obvious answer is that the two gerbils were different sorts of
white. There are many white gerbils all caused by different combinations
of diluting genes. So, for example, you bred a aaggpp gerbil to a
aac[h]c[h] gerbil, both parents would look white with red or pink eyes,
and the offspring would be all black.
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Julian
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National Gerbil Society
http://www.gerbils.co.uk/
