Is because you play silly games, like the 10 to get 1. If you want to talk about something, the one question to answer, Then ask it.



If I think your fooling with me. Then I fool with you. Thats pretty simple. I really have no idea what most think but if I am attacked, I attack back, if I think your trying to corner me, I will corner you. Etc etc etc. Thats only human nature. So playing silly games only gets you more silly games. And no sir, I am not above that, why should I be?



In the case of colubrid eggs. They are very easy to tell if fertile or infertile. In fact, there are many stages.



First, ova, ova are enlarged follicules that have dropped from the ovaries. These can be absorbed or passed. These are often laid one or two a day, a day or two after shedding. Sometimes they are nested, but mostly not. These were never fertilized nor has the shell developed. Soft, slimey, never inflated, smaller then normal, did not absorb water.



Dead eggs. These are ova that passed thru the oviduct and shelled, then either died in the female right away or the sperm was non mobile or dead. Soft, never inflated, do not stick together, but have a tread pattern.



Fertile eggs are full, non slimey, stick together, have a tread pattern. Fertile eggs can and do perish if held to long, they appear normal but are non viable.



Whats interesting is, most think if an egg is fertile, it will hatch. Or if sperm is alive and present, the eggs will be fertile. The reality is, sperm can die at any given time and eggs can die at any given time.



Sperm requires a proper enviornment to survive. Dehydration, infection, scaring, proper temps, etc, can all cause sperm to perish.



After the eggs are fertilized, The zygote can perish for the same reasons as the sperm. Causing a dead fertile egg.



This is a very brief overview, no where near complete. This is plainly visible if you LOOK and observe and test.



Yes, reptiles seem to have the knowledge as to what they are carrying, They behave differently with each type of condition.



They also seem to know which eggs will hatch and which will not.



The problem is, if you keep snakes where nothing normal is allowed(you do it all) you will learn absolutely nothing. You can do it for many years and see nothing and learn nothing.



Its that old saying, you keep doing the same things, expecting a different result. As the saying indicates, only a fool will do that.



If you want to learn more, then you have to venture out(of your sweaterbox) and let the animals do something different. For instance, a great goal is, non interference. If you can create a set up where you add food and remove babies or eggs, then you will start to see the animals doing things they were designed to do.



The thing is Jerry, all you need is faith, the animals do all this in nature without our help, PERIOD. They have been doing it for tens of thousands of years. And they have all manner of roadblocks, like predators, droughts, floods, inconsisitant weather, a constantly changing enviornment, etc



But most here think they will fail unless you do it for them. Thats fine Jerry, but it will only teach you about you, and not about the animals. Cheers

[ Show Entire Thread ]