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Originally Posted by millertime89
That actually makes sense, I never thought of it that way. However whether it applies to snakes or not I'm not sure. What I am sure of is a 6 foot retic sure feels a lot different than a 6 foot carpet or boa. But that could also be attributed to their natural variations in attitudes.
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Relaxed muscle, at least a lot of it, feels a *lot* like fat does except a little more textured, so unless the snake is flexing at you, it'll be hard to tell musculature from a snake.
Muscle all works the same whether reptile human etc, the only issue with my argument is the types of fibers that they exhibit, so ill look into that and get back to you :P
EDIT:
Metabolic fiber types of snake transversus abdominis muscle
(i have full text access cause of my college)
but basically yes, they have the same fibre type actions (use similar energy pathways) as mammals and therefore yes, this would be something that applies (my above argument)
also reptiles apparently undergo puberty but not in a "burst" like we do, they just undergo slow steady hormonal increases until they reach sexual maturity then it slows (which is why they grow slowly over time instead of huge growth spurts like mammals have) so the "puberty" argument applies as well, but in a gradual "in between" way if you will.
The interesting thing is that during breeding cycles, they basically "hit puberty" hormone levels wise according to..
this:
http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cg...ontext=bio_fac
so, it works a little different but from a musculature standpoint that wont have too much of an effect on it.
I can get far more into depth on how a large 6 month snake would be much weaker than a same sized 5 year old snake for example if anyone wants, lol.. >.>