This year the west coast is seeing a lot of slug litters in the boa world so when I got the news at the Anaheim show that the boa I was waiting on mostly slugged out, I figured I was just part of the parade. Slug outs with live bearers seem to happen a lot more in El Nino years, which we just had, so it seemed likely. The monkey wrench in my mind was that there were some nearly black babies in the litter (3 stillborn 1 live).
My initial thought was that the female ended up being het Anery as the IMG male I paired is 66% Het. When I finally arrived home and took a look at the baby for myself, It had a red belly and red cheeks…like a leopard 
I waited for it shed just in case, but no contrary evidence was revealed.
There were two babies that survived, one died shortly after it shed. This little Leopard is the last lady standing. So the total for this litter was 14 infertile, 4 still borns 2 live (1 now).
Parthenogens don’t typically live full lives but Dr. Booth did mention on a podcast that he had a partho boa that lived 8 or 9 years. Two years seems to be about average.
If you’re not sure about how Parthenogenesis works, here are a couple pods that dive into it. The first one is pretty recent and guest starring @t_h_wyman it’s pretty easily digestible for those who aren’t quite as far down the nerdy rabbit hole of genetics. The other is an older MPR interview of Dr. Warren Booth.
