Please understand, theres a huge difference from not finding food, and not eating food in front of you. The wild neonates surely and commonly die of starvation, but its not from lack of a feeding response, its about not finding suitable food sources. What we are discussing here is a LACK of feeding responce.



Do you understand the difference?



Now do you see how your arguement reflects rationalization. Your using it to support your thoughts, yet neglecting a huge difference in actual reality. In my opinion, wild reptiles have a much better feeding responce then captives. They also have the ability to choose the conditions they need.



Consider, reptiles in nature breed like crazy, yet each one infests itself with parasites with each and every meal. Yet is still strong enough to reproduce. Wild reptiles can do do endure, to much heat/cold, lack of food, parasites, predators, no rain, to much rain, and us, and still exsist/reproduce/grow/progress.



Also there is no arguement, in spite of having parasites, wild snakes can and do successfully consume far larger prey items then captives. Try feeding on of your snakes until food is hanging out its mouth(no room to go in) and see what happens. This occurs in nature without incident. There must be a reason.



So yes, the majority of natures snakes die, but not form lack of a feeding response. thanks FR

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