I meant to say this in my first post but forgot to.



The term "aggression" or "aggressive" is used pretty loosely in talking about the behavior of snakes. There is a difference between a snake being aggressive and one being defensive. The typical behavior of Reticulated Pythons & Burmese Pythons falls under "defensive," not "aggressive."



Learning to interpret behavior is key to learning how to deal with it.



The only aggressive behavior I've personally seen with retics & burms is an aggressive feeding response in some snakes. Retics are more known for that but deprived burms can get that way, too.



Remember that a snake's cage is their domain. It's their turf, their security. When that security is breached they naturally want to defend their self unless they're trained to realize that every opening of their cage doesn't mean danger or food.



A snake that comes up out of it's cage when the cage is opened & races towards you with every intention of biting you, well,...... that's an "aggressive" snake (not typical retic or burm behavior).



A snake that remains in it's cage and coils up and/or strikes at you when its cage is opened is usually just being "defensive."



I just wanted to make sure the differences between "aggressive" and "defensive" are understood by everyone reading this. It's vital to a particular circumstance's solution.



Later!

HH
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this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:

Appalachian American





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