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sl8

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Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:19 AM Sep 2020

St. Louis Zoo says python laid 7 eggs without male help yesterday

https://apnews.com/1b6262dfb39d2d7d7437534080b1748e

St. Louis Zoo says python laid 7 eggs without male help
yesterday


ST. LOUIS (AP) — Experts at the St. Louis Zoo are trying to figure out how a 62-year-old ball python laid seven eggs despite not being near a male python for at least two decades.

Mark Wanner, manager of herpetology at the zoo, said it unusual but not rare for ball pythons to reproduce asexually. The snakes also sometimes store sperm for delayed fertilization.

The birth also is unusual because ball pythons usually stop laying eggs long before they reach their 60s, Wanner said.

“She’d definitely be the oldest snake we know of in history,” to lay eggs, Wanner said, noting the she is the oldest snake ever documented in a zoo.

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St. Louis Zoo says python laid 7 eggs without male help yesterday (Original Post) sl8 Sep 2020 OP
That sixty year-old knows what she wants to do and just does it--the feminist of the python world hlthe2b Sep 2020 #1
chuckle. riversedge Sep 2020 #3
K&R Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #2
Tell the evangelicals it was an Immaculate Conception and see if they worship a serpent. CaptYossarian Sep 2020 #4

hlthe2b

(101,730 posts)
1. That sixty year-old knows what she wants to do and just does it--the feminist of the python world
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 07:23 AM
Sep 2020

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
4. Tell the evangelicals it was an Immaculate Conception and see if they worship a serpent.
Fri Sep 11, 2020, 09:46 AM
Sep 2020

Robertson and Pence can kiss it on the mouth.

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