Hey

I'm a fairly seasoned snake keeper, keeping a trio of corn snakes and a sinaloan milk. i usually dont post b/c i havent had a real need to but this question popped into my head and i'm hoping someone has an answer.

I was looking in my biology book and it showed a diagram of snake anatomy. Of course, a female snake has ovaries and oviducts (left and right). My question is, when a female snake cycles in a given season does she ovulate from only one or both ovaries? I know that the live-bearing snakes ovulate from both but i"m more concerned with the egg-layers. It would seem logical to me they would rotate ovaries in a given year, b/c if a female ovulated from both ovaries at once she would have fertilized eggs in both oviducts, and that would make one hell of a fat snake! this isnt a big deal just a question I thought of and couldn't find the answer to anywhere. being a biology major these things fascinate me sometimes.

anyways if anybody knows the answer i'd be happy to know. i've already posted on the [bleep] forums and nobody knew the answer.



Thanks

Jcam

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• snake anatomy question - JCam01, Sat Dec 6 22:53:13 2003
• RE: snake anatomy question - oldherper, Mon Dec 8 09:06:06 2003
• RE: snake anatomy question - JCam01, Mon Dec 8 22:43:46 2003