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by blueraven on October 28, 2004
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does the length of snakes have anything to do with the size of fangs?,does the age of the reptile determin its fangs length ?
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by LarryDFishel on October 28, 2004
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Yes and no. For a given species, a larger individual will USUSALLY have longer fangs than a smaller individual WHEN THE FANGS ARE MATURE. Fangs are shed and replaced, and they begin small and grow larger. I suspect that given an indiviual snake of a known species it should be possible to predict with a fair amount of certainty the MAXIMUM size that snake's fangs can reach before being shed, and given a fang, you could predict the MINIMUM size snake it could have come from. If you just have a fang, and don't know the species all bets are off, except that you could maybe make very broad statements like a 1" fang is VERY UNLIKELY to have come from anything smaller than a 3 foot gaboon (just throwing out some numbers, I don't know if this specific example is valid). But that same fang might also be from a 5 foot rattlesnake or a 10 foot Bushmaster that lost it before it was mature. (If these 3 snakes lived in the same area, again just an example).
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