Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Postby coral snake » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:37 pm

Saturday we had a brief talk about egg eaters at the snake handling course whether egg eaters are actually toothless...

Arno(BV) mentioned that he saw a piece of fibre snag on an egg eaters mouth and after close inspection he saw a tooth like structure... (If I'm correct)

My theory is that their jaw structure developed groove like toothy structures similiar to agmas??

Is there anybody with a complete skull or image or any detail about this subject????
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Re: Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Postby monopeltis » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:49 pm

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Re: Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Postby coral snake » Mon Feb 04, 2013 8:54 pm

That is seriously COOL stuff. Not just the teeth but the entire skulls adaptation!!!

Thanks monopeltis
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Re: Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Postby Westley Price » Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:28 pm

Here are two pictures I took a year ago showing the teeth if you look carefully.

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Re: Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Postby coral snake » Tue Feb 05, 2013 7:23 am

Thanks for all this info guys, much apreciated :)
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Re: Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Postby Viper Wade » Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:50 am

This is something new to me. Thanx guys this was educational
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Re: Egg Eaters: Tooth or Toothless

Postby Bushviper » Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:14 pm

Told you so.

Just kidding. It does seem to differ from snake to snake. I have tried looking in some mouths and all I see are gums.
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