Skegness Magazine

Snake that laid eggs in Skegness

SNAKE LAYS EGGS in SKEGNESS
Natural History was made at Skegness in 1934.
It is one of the reptiles that interests thousands of seasonal patrons of Chief Luale’s Snake Pit in Butlin’s Amusement Park, Skegness, and on Thursday last (July 12th) it laid 14 eggs.
There is, of course, nothing startling in the fact of a snake laying eggs – otherwise the species would become extinct. In India and Africa the laid eggs are buried under some sand and left to be hatched by the tropic sun.
In most parts of Europe the eggs are left in the same way, and unless the conditions are favourable to further developments nothing happens.
This particular snake belonging to Chief Luale, however, after rejecting six of the eggs, is actually sitting on the remaining eight eggs. To the best of our knowledge nothing of this nature has ever occurred in this part of the, country previously. Despite the fact that, from a human viewpoint, the weather is almost unbearably the temperature is neither sufficiently high nor sustained to warrant the eggs being hatched through this medium. Mother Snake has the intelligence to appreciate this and therefore she has adopted the only other method of hatching her eggs.
Naomi, the 19 year old girl, who fearlessly handles the constrictors, and who is seen in the photograph with the snake coiled around her while holding two of the rejected eggs of the reptiles in her left hand, was bitten the week before last.

So did any of the snake eggs eventually hatch? Wouldn’t we like to know!