While I agree that a snake, likely any snake, does learn where and when it can find food (that is after all what they do in the wild), I doubt that the separate container practice conditions them in any way.

> If so, the snake wouldn't try and escape when you put them in the separate conatiner, and yet they often do until they smell the rodent.

> If so, the snake might bite you as soon as it enters the container, since it supposedly knows it is going to feed.

> If so, after the snake eats in the separate container, wouldn't it look at you when you open the lid expecting more? How is this different from opening a cage? The snake knows the difference?

I know that kings learn their environment in the wild, learn where food might best be found, learn where the best basking areas are, etc. Well, they do or they die. But one small container to another, with you forcing them in one or the other, what do they learn? Its not like they get a reward for choosing the right container. You stick them in it. The snake did not make a decision here.
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