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Sonya
at Sat Jan 24 22:42:52 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Sonya ]
>>I agree that ultimately it is a wise decision to separate the snakes at one point. However, I don't feel that the snakes are always by each other because they are competing for basking/hideboxes. I have two of everything...except I only have one humidity box (which is large enough for both of them).
I have three chairs in front of the tv....so why do the kids fight over the one? It is somehow better. I really don't believe it is for company with the snakes. (I KNOW it isn't for the kids either!)
But when I have 4 hideboxes why do both snakes feel it is necessary to hide under the newspaper together(and one one leaves the other follows)...also if one climbs up to chill the other one goes too...the literally follow each other everywhere, and I have a great temperature gradient!
I read this as competition. Picture two kids wanting the same chair....muscling each other to try to get it without making mom yell. It is the same reason that, especially when one is in heat, my two female border collies follow each other room to room....why they both lay at my feet, meet me at the door etc, why, if one follows the cat the other jumps up too.....they are competing for the best spots and situations, and if one thinks the other has the best the other is gonna check it out. NO, I don't think comparing mammals and reptiles is necessarily totally valid...but I think it is an okay analogy here. No, snakes aren't social, pack animals and that is coming into play with the dogs....but the snakes are competing.
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RE: my opinion for both of you - Sonya, Sat Jan 24 22:42:52 2004