In fact, I have not had one "play dead" yet... Not one of my adults ever flipped and not one of the few dozen babies I produced ever showed their bellies...

That's a shame as it is a treat to see, however, it has been at best very uncommon, from my experience, for fresh born hatchlings to do this and they learn quickly that it is not necessary to do, especially after a week or two once they get comfortable in their surroundings. However, I've never had a CB adult ever play dead on me, but I do have several adults that hood at me while raised up like a cobra. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of that, but I really should try to get some, it's really cool to see.




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Troy Rexroth
Rextiles

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• All Black Belly? - livinginvestment, Sun Aug 7 17:06:07 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - Rextiles, Sun Aug 7 18:37:15 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - jamesh, Mon Aug 8 13:55:26 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - Jon R, Mon Aug 8 14:36:05 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - Rextiles, Mon Aug 8 14:58:38 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - Gregg_M_Madden, Mon Aug 8 17:06:47 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - livinginvestment, Tue Aug 9 00:50:38 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - FastDad, Thu Aug 11 03:18:39 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - krhodes, Mon Aug 8 21:07:19 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - jamesh, Tue Aug 9 07:39:48 2011
• RE: All Black Belly? - livinginvestment, Mon Aug 8 23:41:15 2011
• Might as well post pics... - livinginvestment, Tue Aug 9 00:03:16 2011
• Here's a pic of the female I spoke about - Rextiles, Tue Aug 9 00:21:33 2011
• RE: Here's a pic of the female I spoke about - livinginvestment, Tue Aug 9 00:46:33 2011
• RE: Here's a pic of the female I spoke about - Rextiles, Tue Aug 9 01:02:08 2011
• RE: Here's a pic of the female I spoke about - livinginvestment, Tue Aug 9 01:14:18 2011
• RE: Kenny... - Gregg_M_Madden, Tue Aug 9 07:23:03 2011
• RE: Kenny... - Rextiles, Tue Aug 9 13:51:34 2011
• RE: Kenny... - CBI, Tue Aug 9 17:38:38 2011
• Kennerlyi Hooding - CBI, Tue Aug 9 17:42:36 2011