I have a jungle carpet/diamond intergrade whose tongue fell off after becoming infected. This happened at about 6-7 months of age. Amazingly, a few years later the tongue regenerated; but the snake had no control of it. It ended up getting bitten during feedings, and and became necrotic...My vet removed it 7-8 yrs ago. She obviously has retained some sense of "smell", because it took me until last year to get her to spontaneously take rats (she was hooked on gerbils for a loooong time)

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• Tongue Removal - rumor150, Thu Jan 12 14:07:27 2006
• RE: Tongue Removal - cnb2, Thu Jan 12 15:17:36 2006
• RE: Tongue Removal - rumor150, Fri Jan 13 12:42:57 2006
• What were the symptoms of the tumor? - the2ndrunner, Thu Jan 12 15:26:42 2006
• RE: What were the symptoms of the tumor? - rumor150, Fri Jan 13 12:40:01 2006
• Great now you have me worried - the2ndrunner, Fri Jan 13 13:29:02 2006
• RE: Great now you have me worried - rumor150, Fri Jan 13 14:24:31 2006
• RE: Great now you have me worried - the2ndrunner, Fri Jan 13 15:31:15 2006
• RE: Tongue Removal - hhmoore, Fri Jan 13 02:31:56 2006
• RE: Tongue Removal - rumor150, Fri Jan 13 12:44:09 2006