The cameras work great, my friend and I have been talking about using them to see activity in and around gopher tortoise burrows, fun stuff!
I do agree that many snakes have social behavior, some more then others. Seeing two snakes touching and living in the same hole year after year, just doesn't seem that significant. I guess, like you said, bonding can mean many thing but that seems silly, why not separate them. Do male kings really help females make nests? King cobras do and protect them, that would be something I would consider social and pretty cool to see. Touching each other and sharing space doesn't seem like definition of bonding. Crocodiles and iguanas live in social groups with dominate males and females. I learned the hard way that cyclura defend their nests when I jumped in to check a nest at the zoo one mourning. I do agree that it's possible but I'm only talking about floridana, it's a different animal then getula out west. Rainer works with floridana and says it's what they do, that's why I wonder. If touching and not eating each other is the reasons, I am not impressed, not that you need to or want to, just for me.
Have you ever put multiple captive bonded groups together in a room and watched them? Would they stick together or would they just be found randomly around the room? That's not a what do you think question but could be interesting to try.
Also, why would a king snake eat another king?

Are they bonding?

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