Really no offense, but if you do not understand something, you are in no postion to qualify it. You are in no position to say what is important and what is not.

You also do not attempt to understand the subject, which is kingsnakes, you somehow have to include bits and pieces of many other animals, that are unrelated and out of context.

Your position on why not seperate them is odd, there is no reason to not seperate them if you want, but that is all about you and nothing to do with the animals. Seperating them is your control and tells you nothing about the animals.

The problem is, its all theory to you, you have no practical experience, you have not seen it, you have not attempt to express those type behaviors, your naive on the subject. Its all theory.

My suggestion is, do something to educate yourself.

Also, you do not set the rules, snakes coiling together are important if they are avoiding coiling up with others. So yes, that is important. One individual following the another individual and staying with her, is important when it could just as well follow and touch any other female. That they don't is important.

Having the same male attend and copulate the same female year after year, when its around many females is important.

What is very important is the ultimate success of that pair compared to wandering adults.

The problem is see is folks possibly like you think of these animals as Zeros, they do nothing, they are nothing, they are only what you make them.

You do understand there are all manner of scent glands, pores, and other organs, I wonder what they are for????? Nothing I suppose! They mark their territory, WHy?

I guess in your opinion, snakes are what you want them to be and only that. The problem is, those snakes BEHAVE their way in nature, and all without you and anything you think. They have patterns of travel, patterns of behavior, winter ranges, summer ranges, and reproductive areas. They live in colonies and have interaction between individuals.

The simple fact that they have ritualistic combat, which is to fight witout harming the other, tells you of live is a social setting. If not it would simply be REAL COMBAT. Is there real combat? like eating eachother, yes there is, so why ritualistic combat.

Please do some actual research. Cheers

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