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Hello everyone. I was just looking through the classifieds at the pythons and someone has twin baby woma's that were hatched from the same egg. I was just wondering how often things like this happen? I know real deformaties, like two headed snakes and what not are very uncommon, at least to live, but I was curious about twins in one egg. Does this happen often? Just curious..
Circusfan
One of my chickens once laid a double yolked egg, (only once and that's through the laying lifespan of 6 chickens) so I was surprised.
I have never heard before of a snake doing so.
The part that interests me, is that the snake egg actually hatched live little snakes. (I assume the twins are healthy???) That is neat.
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Still searching for 1.0 WC human
I have seen plenty of twin snake births. I would not say it is uncommon at all. I have however heard of a case of parthenogenesis with a burmese python and this is rare. I have only heard of one case actually and it is supposedly a varified documentation. I have heard of quite a few cases among pit vipers though.
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