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Doug L

Awesome Douglas!!! What kind of egg?

Great series of shots Doug!!!
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Randy Whittington

Looks like what happens to me. She is eating her own eggs.
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www.Bluerosy.com

definitely look like snake eggs...uh, why? doesn't matter, just curious...
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Todd Hughes

Well I'll be damned....I can only hope those are not its own eggs, although they seem a bit small for Eastern eggs.
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Jerry Kruse

And God said, "Let there be zonata subspecies for all to ponder..."

Cool. Kings can be found eating turtle eggs in many places. They love 'em!
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

crimsonking.piczo.com/

WTF????????

Is she eating one of her own eggs?

I had a corn snake that ate an infertile egg once. The rest of the clutch was fine and she didn't bother with it. I think it's pretty common. You hear about live-bearing snakes eating the unfertilized ova they pass along with the clutch all the time. Easy, quick nutrition and nothing wasted.

no rotting egg(s) to attract a predators attention to the nest.
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Thanks,

Frank Roberts

those didnt appear to be colubrid eggs ? though it took a LONG time to View those (Fancy Cam) pics {ps turn down the volume of unnecessary mega pixels}...I may possibly be wrong but you and i both doubt that.As my Windows 98 is still working LOL....

Doug,

Let me guess...

An infertile corn snake egg?

I once had a cal king eat her own clutch of eggs. I know this because I saw her coiled around the eggs before she ate them. I didn't remove them because she was still laying them & I didn't want to disturb her. The eggs "looked" good. Ever since then I've removed eggs from kings as soon as they are laid.

Paul

i can relate

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