Let's say your BP just had a complete shed and you find its skin rolled up in a small ball kind of like an unused condom. It's still moist and you carefully unroll it without over-stretching it but without leaving any skin folded over itself either to reveal a one-piece unbroken snake skin with eyecaps embedded in the head section (cool! ). You lay the skin on the carpet and gently flatten it (again without stretching it) so you can see all of its details evenly spread out.

When you measure the skin will it be:

A.) Equal to the actual length of your BP the day she shed

B.) Longer than your BP because some stretching inevitably occurs during shed and/or when unrolling the skin.

or

C.) Shorter than your BP because the skin shrinks slightly when it dries?



(Since my BP just shed as decribed above I think I have an idea of what the correct answer is, but was wondering if there are any aficionados out there who know the actual answer.)