I always wondered if it was possible.
http://pda.physorg.com/lofi-news-zoo-snake-snakes_9159.html
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smilin-buddha
Feb 08, 2006 06:40 PM
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Sighthunter
Feb 08, 2006 06:51 PM
Artificial insemination is actually a fairly simple process and has been done many times before
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smilin-buddha
Feb 08, 2006 07:01 PM
I hadn't seen anything about it being done on reptiles before.
Sighthunter
Feb 08, 2006 07:28 PM
Maby the information I am privy to has not been made public. I can understand why the information has not been made public. I can assure you I have had personal knowledge of it being used for about the last five years.
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Carmichael
Feb 09, 2006 08:24 AM
I, too, know of several instances and the procedure is fairly straightforward (though I haven't tried it myself). Although I see some wonderful benefits in terms of saving endangered species, I can't imagine what that would do at the hobbyist/commercial level...so much for the good 'ol days of snake breeding!
>>Maby the information I am privy to has not been made public. I can understand why the information has not been made public. I can assure you I have had personal knowledge of it being used for about the last five years.
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>>"Life without risk is to merely exist."
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL
Fred Albury
Feb 09, 2006 02:24 PM
Random Thought: Would using a male who doesnt show ANY interest in breeding and has a PROVEN low sperm count insure that future generations of captive bred eastern indigos would pass on these less than desirable traits to their offspring, assuming they actually had any?
So much for survival of the fittest. Time for survival of the weakest, or perhaps survival of the least well endowed?lol
Fred Albury
ecarinata
Feb 09, 2006 02:51 PM
Give ole Blu a break He's 15 years old. What's that in human years? :>
Fred Albury
Feb 09, 2006 03:03 PM
About my age.....:>
Age is just a number....um what where we talking abut again?
lol
Fred Albury
philfrank
Feb 09, 2006 06:05 PM
I know for alligators that the older a male is the more active and strong his sperm is. Hunters who cpture very large old alligators have the sperm removed by local gator farmers before they are killed. I wonder if this could be the case in snakes as well, and this snakes low sperm count has more to do with temperature variants than his age?
Just a thought.
Phil
