If you read some of FR's posts he explains it real well.



Here is a recent post of FR's that explains it way better than I ever could:

I raise them from hatchlings in groups. The younger the better.

Like Bluerosy, I have done and tried and seen lots. I also tested this stuff. Something I did test as I produced literally thousands of cal kings(I pioneered the albino, high whites/high yellows etc)

I would raise clutches together and all was fine, no problems. But if you took one from another clutch and put it in the cage. They would attempt to eat it. I tested it many many times. What was interesting is, the new animal to a group, never attempted to eat the residents. It was always the residents attempting to eat the new comer. This was HARD FACTS

Its easy to see that this cannibalism is not about food, its about territory and group mates. Once they were adults this changed. I kept these litters as breeding groups and they did not like to be separated. ALso if you took a female from one cage and put it in with females of another cage, the females would combat the newcomer.

So yes, there is a lot to this. But its not math. Its behavior, as such, there are always exceptions. Such as outcasts etc, that is common with all social animals. If you think about it, social means to include others. It also means to exclude others. Simply put, herp societies do not invite Geologist.

The problem is people make everything so complicated. ITs simple, each group is US. anything not us, is them. Them is not us. Therefore they are fair game to eat. how do snakes know who US is? they bond with eachothers pheromones(scent) upon hatching/birth. Much like, oh everything else(birds and mammals, etc) Its not complicated or odd, all similar animals do it.

Another oddity, snakes have scent glands, hmmmmmmmmmm
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