Am I the only one who notices this?

All of my adult and subadult males do this, fairly consistently. I discovered this by accident in 2001 when I picked up one of my males... he got excited because I had female scent on me, and he did this on my arm. (eewwwwww!!!)

I've been using this for a couple years now as a way to be sure it's a male. Just wondering if I'm the only one.

Serp,
I have noticed this as well in most of the adult males upon introducing them to the females for breeding.

Yeah, Serp.

I've got two males who seem to love to do this on me whenever I get them out. I have noticed that this happens mostly around breeding time, however. They don't seem to want to do it now.

Gives new meaning to....

"Lower than a snakes belly"


self popping the of the ol' hemipenes, who knew?

So the "big" question now is, does size matter at breeding time?

Relative to fertility, I'm speaking of.
Probably no big thing ,
but could it be a fertility factor?


Strange trivia but true...
Iguanas, koalas and Komodo dragons all appear to have two penises.
To clarify, though, they have a single penis, but it is split in two (pretty much 'Y'-shaped.)
This organ is known as a hemipenes.
Snakes also share this interesting feature.
Apparently, the dual penis is for ease of left-handed or right-handed mating. Also, at least in snakes, the semen does not flow through a vessel (like in mammals), but rather, a groove.

Okay, a little more remotely snake related trivia...
All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from just one female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.
The species had been named in 1839 when a single animal was found, again in Syria, but it had net been seen by scientist for nearly a century. Selective breeding has now produced several color varieties.

CowBoyWay said:

All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from just one female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930.

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I need to remember that little factoid for the next time someone goes off on a tyrade about "inbreeding is bad, and you're gonna have hatchlings with 7 heads."