This extra hobby that some of you have - is it an exercise in animal
husbandry or taxidermy?
 
Jorge Mendez Fuentes wrote:
 
> ejpower wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Hi Art,
> >
> > Several shell related questions as applied to the Flying Piglets;
> >
> > How uncommon are the albino or white specimens?
> >
> > Can they be artificially "whitened"?
> >
> > Are they resistant to whitening materials such as clorox, peroxides,
> > etc etc, that is will they die when treated?
> >
> > Most of the terrestrial Piglets that are white have pigmented
> > spots/areas on the underbelly and snoot. Would this be true of the
> > Flying Piglets? Would the Elk think of these as not quite Gem quality?
> >
> > Later,
> >
> > Emilio Jorge Power
>
> Friends:
>
> Albino pigglets are very unussual, but I preffer the tropical species,
> like Piglet violacea (grey with fine purple lines), Piglet rhodostoma
> (cream with, brown diamonds,  red-wine noose, bluish wings), Piglet
> aurea (very nice !, golden points over pink), Piglet rubiventricosa
> (fatty and delicateli red stomach, great white wings), and micropiglet
> melanacanta (small, black, yellow squares, looks like a exothic bumble
> bee, don4t take more !, is under protection).
>
> Piglet nivea is the only white species I have in my collection.
>
> Regards !
>
> Jorge
> Mexico City
>
> p.d. Smile !