school project

[resisted]

I'm doing a Stats project for school, trying to find a relationship between length and weight in snakes. I've already done all ten of my snakes, but I need fifteen samples.

So.. if anyone could please give me some measurements? I just need species, weight in grams, and rough length in centimeters.

Thaaaaaaanks tons, everyone.

[Mendel's Balls]

I only have one snake-a ball python that's a bit over 1 year old. Your question gave me an excuse to use the Snake Measurer program again. I hadn't played with it for awhile!

Weight is 602 grams and length is ~83.1 cm. A mass to body length ratio of 7.2 g/cm

You might be interested in this post on a paper that compares various species' mass to body length ratio. As a Davidson Biology professor put it, "Sometimes research begins in the [scientific] literature, not the laboratory [or field]" (Campbell 2004).

I'd be interested in knowing the mass to body length ratio of other people's snakes, particularly ball pythons. I also wonder if this ratio varies with age, sex, etc. Also sometimes we worry that our guy is a bit too skinny.

Ref.
Campbell, A.M. (2004, May). Open Access: A PLoS for Education. PLoS Biology, 2 (5): 560-563.