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Old 01-02-04, 10:10 AM   #1
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Boas lay eggs...it's true

Hi everyone, untill yesterday I thought there was only one "boa" that layed eggs and that is the round island boa. Thanks to Roy Stockwell, I was informed that in the last two years they dicovered two sand boas that also layed eggs.

Is this news to anyone else?
Is there any info about the two species?
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Old 01-02-04, 11:42 AM   #2
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What are the 2 species? I thought only Calabar Ground Boas laid eggs. I'm interested to know the answer too!
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Old 01-02-04, 01:41 PM   #3
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Was able to find some info about this when I asked on another forum:

"the Mueller's or West African, Eryx muelleri, and the Arabian, Eryx jayakari. This was discovered quite recently so it's not mentioned in many books. "

Here's some more info:
http://www.**************/sandboa/eryx.html
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Old 01-02-04, 01:52 PM   #4
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Roy mentioned the Eryx muelleri and Eryx jayakari.
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Old 01-02-04, 02:05 PM   #6
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It is cool but I find it weird. I would always use the live bearing characteristic to seperate boas and pythons. I will still use that as a way to seperate the two but in the back of my mind I'll know that there are egg laying boas.
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Old 01-21-04, 09:22 AM   #7
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Here's a pic for you... Hatching Eryx Jayakari first produced in 2001 by John Emberton of East Bay Vivarium
Photo by Rick Staub,
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Old 01-21-04, 09:32 AM   #8
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Wow....thank you Roy
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Old 01-21-04, 09:36 AM   #9
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that's just freaky.. so much for egg = python..
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Old 01-21-04, 10:20 AM   #10
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thanks

Thanks for the info guys:-). Everytime I come on here I learn something new and interesting.
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Why exactly are those sand boas instead of sand pythons?

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Good question BoaBoi we have the GTP and ETP The Snakes look rather similare but there are real differences I am guessing that there is Genetic reasons that they remain boas and are not renamed to fit the Python criteria. Maby some one can give us some insight to the reasons.
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