Joan,

. That is the first time I have ever heard of one Rainbow Boa killing another except in fights over food where one snake partially swallows the other. I use male to male aggression to get BRBs breeding sometimes and they only go as far as pushing each other around in the cages. No biting and very limited wrapping. You are right about strange things happening in snake cages. There are cases of dozens of snake species which are not known for being canniballisitic devouring other snakes.

Jeff



>>Hi – I recently posted this on another forum, but thought it might be of interest to you.

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>>I had a really odd thing happen a long time ago with a couple of Brazilian rainbow boas, Epicrates cenchria cenchria. The female swelled way up; I introduced a male; they copulated; she acted gravid; I removed the male; she never produced anything; by the following breeding season she was still swollen; I had radiographs taken; no embryos were visible; I reintroduced the male; a couple of days later he constricted her to death. When I cut her open, she was packed with big, beautiful, healthy-looking unfertilized ova (14 in each oviduct, as I recall). And the male? I never felt very kindly about him after that. He’s an old guy now going on 23 years old. And that was the last chance he ever got to strut his stuff with a female. What can you learn from this? Weird things can happen in a cage

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>>-Joan

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