Bitis species mating

[Bushviper]

Someone I know has Puff adders and Horned adder (Bitis caudalis) in the same cage. Despite my warning he left them together. A few nights ago he checked on them during the night and found this:



He thought the puff adder was mating with the horned adder because he knew for a fact the puff adder was a male. The puff adder is also small and probably a yearling. It is quite obvious that the Horned adder was mating with the puff adder and with them both being male nothing can come of this.

This was recorded at the Transvaal museum as well and the male puff adder was very indignant and wanted to kill the male horned adder.

It is strange that this should happen twice and in both cases there was not a female horned adder in the vicinity. Captivity does strange things to people and animals.

[Bushbaby]

Homosexuality in snakes is just a no no!! The idiot should be beaten and left for dead for keeping these snakes together in the first place!!!

[froot]

This is what heppens when you keep snakes on kinky navy blue velvet.
How would males mate? Would the one's hemipene be inserted into the other's inverted hemipene? I'm not even going to suggest the other available option.

[Bushviper]

Froot they would have used the other available option.

"Bubbas" hemipenes would not be inserted into the tail where the hemipenes are but into the cloaca towards the body itself.

[Pythonodipsas]

Maybe horned adders have a homosexual streak. I once had 5 male horned adders in a cage and had to remove the one because it kept trying to mate with the others and they were freaking out.

[Bushviper]

Hence the name I suppose.

Or is that because of those protrusions on the head?

Has anyone ever found this in other species?

[Serpy]

Hmmm I always knew Horned adders were "unique". Bless his little heart for trying! honestly I just think that was a hint to his owner to get him a female *look look I can do it! *

[gaboon69]

Maybe horned adders have a homosexual streak.

Apparently NATCON is road cruising in Hillbrow at night to remove some specimens flashing motorists too.
They are to be reclassified as 'horny adders'.
This whole post gets to me man..unbelievable.

[snake-5]

Dam i would also be pissed if another male tried testing my tail pipe... I would also try kill him.

[Gabi]

Who would've thought... Yep captivity can do strange things to you. He wanted a jail b***h he took one. You can't hold that against him. He can't help it

[Bushviper]

Luckily he is at a better home now and possibly he gets the girlfriend he was lusting after.

[dave]

A friend of mine has had 2 males cerastes cerastes that mated with each other

This species also has horns

[Trayton]

*look look I can do it! *

Haha love it!thats a good one.

[Gabi]

This was recorded at the Transvaal museum as well and the male puff adder was very indignant and wanted to kill the male horned adder.

Somehow I don't blame him. I can only imagine what was going through the poor lil' guys mind

[Long John Silver]

Somehow I don't blame him. I can only imagine what was going through the poor lil' guys mind

Or through his a***!