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What I don't see mentioned there is the order in which what recourses were broken down. But any educated guess would say that stored fat would go first and then muscle tissue, before internal tissues or organs. So in most cases you should be able to look at a snake and know that it's starving. I don't think these well-evolved animals are going to start "eating their hearts out" before they use up stored fat and start appearing really thin. My opinion would be that a boa with a healthy layer of fat tissue (not an excessive layer) is at no risk of organ metabolization. Paranoia about such a thing shouldn't arise until the animal is clearly becoming too thin. And so a lot of excess fat is unnessessary, and can be as dangerous to the reptile as being too thin, seeing as how it can damage internal organs as well.
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