I definately believe multiple males and multiple breedings increase fertility % in Drymarchon.



In my 10 years experience breeding Drys...I have only "single maled" any given female a couple times and fertility has been lower that with multiple males.



Interestingly...some of the GA study animals have been found to breed with multiple males. One girl bred with 5 males in a single breeding season!



Oh, and there have been several clutches laid in captivity in the past couple years from wild - collected gravid females (study site snakes...done legally of course)



The eggs were hatched in captivity and the babies released.

Those females to my knowledge all had 100% fertile clutches, so they know what they are doing!

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