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Time to geek out...

Tula_Montage

Tula_Montage

It's Jager time!
Found some pretty interesting stuff the last few days. Just thought I would share a couple of pictures.

First up an x-ray of a gravid boa, then the anatomy of a baby boa! :cool:
 

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I love that first photo, it's s0o0o0o0o. Oh I don't know how to describe it, can you take one without using an x-ray? Hopefully those eggs come out A-OK. That last photo is very interesting, thanks for sharing!
 
Tula_Montage said:
EGGS?! LOL thats a BCI Jimmy... They have LIVE babies hee hee
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I've been living in lies the whole time. :eek1: (I thought those eggs were a bit funky) :grin01: Thanks for watching my back Elle. :cool:
 
very cool pictures...i am still having trouble telling exactly what i'm seeing in the x ray pic..but i can surely see the area containing the babies. i think thats the first x ray i've seen of a snake. :cheers:
 
Cool pics! The more developed the babies are, the less likely they are to have mutations from the x-ray. Probably a one-time minimal dose isn't going to hurt anything, but x-ray dose is cumulative for the entire life and doesn't "wear off," what you get you keep forever. Rapidly dividing cells are the most sensitive to radiation. Speaking in human terms, it takes a cumulative dose of 15 rads to the embryo/fetus to cause a birth defect. That is roughly the dose of 1500 chest x-rays or 42 years of background radiation.

I like the disection pic, too. Weird how far the gall bladder is from the liver, and how the kidneys are so distal.

Nanci
 
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