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Wild Inside: The Burmese Python

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The Hemipenus Is Engorged

The hemi itself has become an incredibly complex organ, as i think yougis might have just seen. It's covered in a huge array of barbs and hooks, which we think might speak about some really interesting biology for how the copulation works. For me, it was the lungs that i was just so shocked by how long they were. I wasn't expecting that. And also the variation in the way they looked. They've got thi double headed hemipinus that they insertd ote put actually see it working. And to go behind that is part of the evolutionary processes that go on again and again with this snake. You've been listening to discovery on the b

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