There is one question which really intrigues me. It relates to what we've debated over and over.
I've heard your hypothesis about how snakes have evolved to a tremendous level of efficiency in order to survive and, therefore, most of the problems we see in captivity relate to how we don't provide what is adequate for them etc. - excuse me if I haven't phrased your point the way you might have, but I think that's the gist.

Now this is my question and maybe you've discussed it elsewhere and I missed it:
In your field studies, have you attempted to palpate females which appear to have just laid eggs to see if they have retained any eggs.
I think this would be a very important and useful point of comparison when we are trying to determine how we are faring with our captive breeding.
If you haven't done so yet with a decent sample size and if it's a realistic thing for you to do, then I think it could possibly be an extremely informative study and I, for one, would love to hear the results.

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