snakes can digest their own hearts!!!

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When a ball python fasts for half the year, this is natural--when it is deprived of food for half the year at a time when it would choose to eat, by the deliberate actions of a person...this is animal cruelty.

If it had been for a longer period of time, then I would agree with you. As it was only six months or so, and at the most had lost 20% of their weight, they were far from starving unless already emaciated when he started the experiment. I would assume he had used snakes that were a good healthy weight.

yeah snakes do make me feel fuzzy inside, i like it (: i dont think the experiment was worth it though, do you? i dont think that his studies will end up helping humans in any way, other than relating snakes to all other living things which isnt very groundbreaking. the starving wasnt so bad the dead ball python in a blender was the sick part. he could have just taken tissue samples and blended those but im no scientist and idk if that would work.
and yeah im totally snakist here but why couldnt he have used some other snakes!! ball pythons are exotic and beautiful ):
its like if i blended cheetahs instead of idk i cant think of a good example haha but catch my drift ?

I like snakes too, I wouldn't have so many if I didn't. As far as the blending part, sure it's kind of sick, and not something I would want to do myself, but the animal was euthanized prior to it. Had the animal been thrown in the blender alive then you can bet I'd be outraged. I would assume ball pythons were included in the study because they're the cheapest and most abundant species of python in the US.

i dont think animals should be put in blenders unless maybe they die by themselves and not by lethal injection. do you simply see it as worth it? or what?

I don't see how being euthanized or dying of natural causes has anything to do with being put in a blender. There are people out there who do much worse to ball pythons. Remember those kids who nailed a living ball python to a telephone pole? Or how about that football team who bought one to kill on the field for good luck before a game? Or all the negligent owners out there who keep them in horrible conditions?

yeah but he could have just left them and the ratsnakes out and just blended those diamondbacks to a pulp, i mean those kill people !!!! im aware im being silly i took science classes, i know you need a wide range of subjects to experiment on to draw reliable conclusions. but dang! those are pets !! seriously, people take care of those kinds of animals and LOVE them. that should count against the blending big time.
what if instead of blending only 20 normal balls he blended 3 pairs of normals, then 1 pair of each morph including designer morphs would that change anything?

I really don't get how you think it's ok to throw one species of snake in a blender but not another? As far as the morphs go, they're still ball pythons. The only thing I could see it changing would be if a certain morph didn't handle a lack of food as well due to a weaker physiology.