Aborted ova

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Originally Posted by RyanGSP

Those arent ova those are fat stores snakes have to store energy. This snake must have been grossly overfed to get fat stores like this.

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http://thereptilereport.com/aborted-ova/

http://www.reptileradio.net/ball-pyt...-ova-pics.html

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...e-what-this-is

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/gener...snake-man.html

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Originally Posted by Matt K

I have seen these same structures in Anthill pythons in the past. I had a dystocia last year with my female A. perthensis that I was able to remedy by milking out a mostly infertile clutch. There were fully developed slugs, one viable egg (interestingly enough this egg had a decently formed fetal snake in it, as if it was incubated within the snake for a time), and fatty-looking tissue in similar form to what is pictured here. Physiologically I don't believe large bodies of adipose tissue like this can build up within the ovaries, and due to my own experiences with these bodies being released simultaneously with more developed ova, I'd have to agree that what we're seeing is definitively aborted ova.

I'm certainly no expert, but I am a vet student with a basic understanding of physiology if that counts for anything, haha.

Cheers,
-Matt

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