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domingoakasunday Mar 18, 2004 03:24 PM

I was talking about snakes today and someone asked me about a retic burm cross and I told them it has been done and it was named a bateater, to which I imediatly got the question why is it called a bateater? now I am wondering myself.

does anyone know what prompted the name bateater?
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1.0 red tail boa (no name yet...still working on that)
0.0.1 Fire Belly Toad (Prince William)
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1.0 blood python (lestat)

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lilroach56 Mar 18, 2004 04:17 PM

np
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meretseger Mar 18, 2004 09:00 PM

Hank Molt came up with the name as a joke, is the story I heard.
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