FR, I want to apologize if it looks like I'm badgering, you know me. My followup was based on what looked like viable eggs and included what happened to my Goini last season. My adults were kept together in a large cage, many options, well fed. I happened to come in while both were chowin on em, I palpated 3 eggs from the males stomach and candled them and found them to be fertile. For stress reasons I obviously didnt do the same to the female. Now they didnt hatch, I'd suspect going into a snakes belly and back again cant be good on an egg. If I have seen it you must have seen it right?? What gives??

Knowing this I ask you again, have you known snakes to eat viable fertile eggs as well as all this periphery behavior already noted?? If so, under what context? And what is your opinon on THAT part of the subject?? I mean if you claim snakes are smart enough to do all this discarding of infertiles how do you justify the fertiles? Are these "dumb" ones? And some of that other info seems subjective and anecdotal. You mention discarded python eggs with embryos in them...could they not have hatched because the female didnt incubate them?? Do the same females hatch 100% of incubated eggs?? Could the snakes be wrong??

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