Sunday, March 1, 2009

Double Hemipened

According to Wikipedia:

"Although a wide range of reproductive modes are used by snakes; all snakes employ internal fertilization, accomplished by means of paired, forked hemipenes, which are stored inverted in the male's tail. The hemipenes are often grooved, hooked, or spined in order to grip the walls of the female's cloaca."

That's cool. Except they forgot about the part where this happens:





Which sucks big time because I love it when that happens.





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