#dead snake

The 3.74 meter reticulated python is finally finished, I am extremely proud, I feel like a peacock

There were probably more than a thousand pieces and I still have a 2.5 meter burmese degreasing and two other snakes in the freezer waiting to be cleaned and articulated

This first clutch had normal calcification. One of the eggs looked completely normal, the other however was nearly twice the size of the others. I've seen this happen a few times: for some reason these eggs cannot release moisture. It just keeps absorbing. The albumin is thin and under immense pressure and the baby is always deformed. I have no clue why.

I cut both these eggs because everyone else was out and they hadn't even pipped yet.

Photos under the cut, view at your own risk

Found a small snake that had been killed on the road and gave it to the Gals ...

... who were fascinated by the snack. You would have thought this was the first time they had had one. It wasn't.

Young Hunter Wounded by a Snake, marble, 1824-27, by Louis Petitot