Skip Maas holding pet pythons (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Skip Maas holding pet pythons

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Skip Maas, a PhD candidate in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, holds his personal pet snakes, Gaius and Agrippina. In the lab, Maas studies python metabolism to better understand how the snakes can eat so much, and go so long without eating, while remaining healthy.

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