the contractions observed were cyclic in nature and non-random. I questioned it myself, but have heard of a few other instances over the years. I would like to see additional data on this as well. My guess is female BHP or Womas probably would never show this behavior unless the ambient cage temps are dropped into the low 80's or even upper 70's. I believe they would behaviorally thermoregulate above those temps. I don't know of any keepers anywhere that have actually dropped temps and tried this with maternally incubating Aspidites. It definitely would never be observed if the eggs are pulled for artificial incubation shortly after being laid. It likely would not be cool enough to initiate it in that short of time period. It would be interesting to see a maternally incubating female cycled through a large natural day and night temp fluctuation and monitor her behavior.

Kelly

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