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j3nnay
at Tue Mar 11 20:52:39 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by j3nnay ]
No, because a snake is not a social animal.
Domestication involves selecting the 'tamest' animals out of a group of offspring and selectively breeding those offspring until you have a 'domesticated' version of the original animal.
I believe there was an experiment done with foxes, and the man who did it managed to produce 'domesticated' foxes in about 50 years (might have been generations?). Try googling it.
Snakes as they are can be conditioned to tolerate handling, but I don't think they have enough higher brain functions to be truly domesticated like a cat or dog.
~jenny
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- can a snake be domesticated? - mldolan, Tue Mar 11 20:45:58 2008
 RE: can a snake be domesticated? - j3nnay, Tue Mar 11 20:52:39 2008- RE: can a snake be domesticated? - FatBoyBallPython, Tue Mar 11 20:53:59 2008
- link? - robyn@ProExotics, Tue Mar 11 22:16:19 2008
- RE: link? - mldolan, Wed Mar 12 03:17:28 2008
- RE: link? - mldolan, Wed Mar 12 12:56:09 2008
- NO - jyohe, Wed Mar 12 16:24:54 2008
- I'll define domesticated. - HydraZulu, Thu Mar 13 13:44:03 2008
- tamed? - robyn@ProExotics, Thu Mar 13 18:09:33 2008
- ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, - jyohe, Fri Mar 14 15:34:21 2008
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