>>Opened up a drawer this morning to find this female munching down her newly-laid eggs



great photo documenting behavior. we used to talk a lot about snakes sometimes failing to breed to fruition by "resorbing" or "absorbing" their clutches prior to deposition. it was an easy way to explain the phenomenon of a snake that is gravid by all indications--sometimes you can even count the eggs--and then suddenly she's not. I suggested several years ago on the milk forum that in at least some of those instances the females were laying and then eating, their eggs. a couple people wrote to say they'd found females doing that. yours is the first photo proof I can recall.

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• You don't see this every day...... - brhaco, Wed May 12 16:21:52 2010
• I've never................ - Kerby..., Wed May 12 16:27:11 2010
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• RE: The reason we don't get along - FR, Sat May 15 09:29:13 2010
• RE: The reason we don't get along - Jeff Schofield, Tue May 18 13:09:07 2010
• OOPS, that was supposed to say fertile - Jeff Schofield, Thu May 13 00:19:53 2010
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• Well put - Jeff Schofield, Tue May 18 13:20:51 2010
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• Florida kings are famous for this... - foxturtle, Wed May 12 20:59:46 2010
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• RE: Florida kings are famous for this... - BRhaco, Thu May 13 08:45:37 2010
• here's a weird one..... - Joe Forks, Thu May 13 09:24:49 2010
• RE: Florida kings are famous for this... - a153fish, Thu May 13 10:31:05 2010
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