...females CAN ovulate without being bred, but almost always (9999.9% of time)lay duds...my original female received in 1969 as a juvenile did ovulate and lay good eggs in her 22nd year without exposure to another ball python, let alone a male, in the previous 8 years...3 of 4 eggs hatched, one went full term dead-in-egg...this is obviously an EXTREME example but clearly illustrates the potential of female BP's...much more recently is the verified example of parthenogenesis in the burmese in the Netherlands...

Scott J. Michaels DVM
Serpent City

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• do females bp's have to ovulate every year - XtremeXteriors, Fri Mar 4 18:29:09 2005
• RE: do females bp's have to ovulate every year - TomChambers, Sat Mar 5 19:12:54 2005
• Not exactly true, Tom.... - serpentcity, Sun Mar 6 16:47:10 2005