My Boa may be Gravid!

Im so excited, my Boa, baby, could possibly be gravid. She has caused a suspition for quite a while but I am pretty sure she is Gravid now. This will be my first clutch of boas ever ( I am not sure you call live young a clutch but oh well)! Does anyone know somemore signs that she could be pregnet besides the ones she has been having ( I listed them below)?

Shes been having...

increased weight

more basking ( i havent changed the temp)

less apetite

agression

Hey! Congrats!!!! That's awsome.... :P No help from me on definate give aways... but sounds right!

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Originally Posted by Boasrule

This will be my first clutch of boas ever ( I am not sure you call live young a clutch but oh well)!

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I'm not a boa gal, but I think that they are called litters with boas.

Oh well I wasnt sure

so cool! good luck

That's a tough one. Boas are ovoviviparous, which means they are contained in an egg within the mother until birth, but they still feed off of the egg yolk and have no umbilical attachment to the mother. Egg laying species (like balls) are oviparous, meaning they lay an egg. Mammals are viviparous, meaning they give live birth to a baby that was nourished from an umbilical connection to the mother. I looked at several online dictionaries and found this definition for litter in all of the ones i looked at "offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal" (multiparous meaning giving birth to more than one offspring), so according to that only mammals can have litters. Since boa babies still technically hatch from an egg (even thought the egg is contained in the mother) they are still considered a clutch according to the information i found.

Either way, good luck with the babies.

Thanks you guys, I am so excited about her having them! The pic below is her.

http://reptiles.jakesreptiles.com/images/my%20boa.jpg