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I figured this might be educational for some so while I gutted her, my mom of all people snapped pics.
It looks like the little purple gummy boogers on the sides are the itty bitty snakes. Im not sure on that, but thats where the veins that go around the yolks lead to.

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Davey Giltner

Davey,
...You are exactly right about the anatomy of those "egg" masses. I was really sorry to read your post the other day. I have done exactly what you are doing in the PIC a couple of times. I have seen them looking like yours and also have seen them with no blood vessels and no apparent embryos on the masses. There is a bunch we can learn from opening up dead gravid snakes. The masses look so nice that I think it is likely that the snake did not die due to infection or hemmorrhage inside the oviducts. Did you see anything in other parts of the snake that might give a clue why she died? Your PIC is truly heartbreaking but it also is an opportunity to learn something about boid reproduction.
Jeff

>>I figured this might be educational for some so while I gutted her, my mom of all people snapped pics.
>>It looks like the little purple gummy boogers on the sides are the itty bitty snakes. Im not sure on that, but thats where the veins that go around the yolks lead to.
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>>Davey Giltner

Thanks for the pic, Davey, your a trooper....

Chris O
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Naked I see the camp of those who desire nothing

..and I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you really don't call it quits. Your circumstances will change, maybe not in the time frame you would like, but they will.

I am always interested in pics like that. I would have done the same thing, but WITHOUT Mom!

Linda
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"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance- that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer