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Hi All,

Does anyone have any Eryx muelleri or jayakari eggs they'd like to donate to science?

Vinny
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Natural Selection Reptiles

No one will have sand boa eggs since they give live birth.

I should qualify that, Eryx mulleri, (Kenya) are live bairers.

Almost all boas are live-bearers. E. muelleri and E. jayakari lay eggs, google them there are cool pics!

Vinny
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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Natural Selection Reptiles

I stand corrected, I should have recognized the species difference. I will go to bed with egg on my face tonight.

No worries, its not widely known that a coupe of species are oviparous. Turns out that muelleri is not even closely related to Kenyan sands even though the patterns are similar.

Vinny

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“There is a grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed laws of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” -C. Darwin, 1859

Natural Selection Reptiles