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A Pride of Zebras

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My goodness, so many mutations yesterday! My purples are pretty well established now, but I've also gained some turquoise females. Interestingly over by the lift there is my first shiny male Zebra, you'll remember I did have a green male Bengal but he died quite young, this guy though grew up and had lime kids, both male and female. Interestingly they stay a lime colour from birth to adulthood, most of my other colour mutations have either only been babies and then they've swapped back to regular colours, or they were born in their regular colourway and changed to something more unusual when they hit adolescence. Another couple of mutations I've noticed, no photos for these unfortunately but I had a Norn with Grendel arms, unfortunately he died very young, but I have also noticed my first (on either laptop) gait mutation, I've noticed a lot of Norns who seem to move everywhere backwards. It doesn't seem to be harmful to them in any way, but

Ok That's Interesting

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So both the purple and Bruin leg mutations seem to have firmly fixed themselves into my population, but interestingly my purple x Bruins have gained the purple fur all over their bodies, now in my Bengal population, the Norns with Bruin and Grendel parts that also had colour mutations, the colour was only present in their Bengal parts. So far it seems again that the colour mutations are only effecting the females though.

Where do these Bruin parts keep coming from?

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Oooh first mutant Zebra over on the left there and... It's more Bruin legs! Now this is extra odd because while I was certain it was unlikely that a Bruin had somehow got mixed up in my Bengal population, this is another whole laptop with another download of Exodus and I'm still getting random Bruin parts thrown in? I wonder what would happen if I had a population of Bruins? Not long after that I got my first colour mutation, this fiery redhead that the autonamer amusing called Goldie! I'm not going to selectively breed any of these mutants like I have been with my Bengals, but I have saved a copy of Goldie in my onedrive, if I hit a point after a few hundred hours back on my regular laptop of samey looking Bengals I might throw her into the mix. I am hoping she breeds though, purple Zebras are amazingly cute.

Zebras

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Had a bit of a crash on my laptop so it's away being repaired for the next week, while that's all going on I've fired up an old laptop and thought I'd have fun with a different Norn breed. On this one I'm breeding the ever so cute, Zebra Norns. I guess I have a thing for stripes.

Kastor

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Not a whole lot to report in this update, Bruin parts seem to be a very strong trait that's being passed on a lot since I reintroduced a few of the Bruingals to my main world, the only other real interesting thing is Kastor here, who is now 25 hours old and seems to have spent the last ten hours just chilling in the desert. 

Bringing It All Back Home

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I've not had a whole lot to tell of late, I've managed to get stable populations of the Bruingal mutants, the Grengals (whose females are all a nice purple), and both colour variations (Rose and Berry Bengals), although with the latter I've still not been able to get the colour mutations to pass on to any males. I've kept copies of a few purebreds of each mutation in a separate file, I might upload them somewhere at some point if I ever get any readers! I do have an absolutely huge list of exported Norns now though, so I am gradually reintroducing them to the main population over in Hella to see what the next evolutionary step is!

SUDDENLY! Grendel Legs

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I seem to have hit an issue with my Berry Bengals in that the purple colouring only seems to pass to female Norns, and not the males, however I discovered that they are carrying the mutation even if it isn't visible. I discovered this when I found myself making yet another new world to pop the latest mutants into. I had a male Norn spontaneously develop Grendel legs, so I sent him off to Valhalla with a completely unrelated pure Bengal female, and a bunch of their daughters came out purple. Oddly enough though the Grendel legs seem happy to pass to everybody!