Grow Faster, Breed Sooner? (NOT POWER FEEDING)

I listened to the MPR episode on digestion as well when it came out (really interesting, I recommend it) and I remember two points from it that I haven’t seen mentioned yet and might be helpful. First is that a snake’s digestion can be very different in the different life stages, and the process described in the podcast was mainly applicable to adult pythons. It wasn’t really clear just how similar the intensity of that process would be to a hatchling python’s. Second I think Dr. Loughman mentioned an instance where a certain population of carpet python does in fact spend part of the year with their digestive system constantly running because of the abundance of food during that time, but they are fine since their system gets a break once that surge of food is over.
I don’t think you could extrapolate those things to justify *daily* feedings though.


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