kevin

Again, nobody said anything about adult "useless" snakes that do not go through normal cycle periods to breed. A fully grown female can get fat and store that fat around the ovum. making fertilization almost impossible since sperm cannot pass through that area. However since this is possible in pythons and boids, I have never seen this myself in colubrids. Every fat snake turns skinny after laying. Same goes for the brumation period. breeding males brumate and take less food. Especially if females are around.

So lets leave male kingsnakes out of this. It is really the females that are in question to over feed. But a young healthy female...impossible to overfeed.

Snakes are not humans and that is where this debate comparison coincides. Everyone knows a lean human being has a better chance at living a longer life. I would be more worried about humas over feeding and living a short life. that is a more plausable arguement.

And as far as your statement that kings don't eat much in nature. Well they are motly snake feeders. At least the eastern getula are. Cal kings do eat there fair share of snakes as well. They cram a snake down themselves that is sometimes as long, if not longer than they are. You want to guess what that egquals in grams compared to mice?
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