The indigos are just so much more "with it" and intelligent than nearly any other reptile I have seen, my kings are just kind slower mentally



So if I have a Indigo with lower than average IQ and an eastern king with an above average IQ ,then what? I have noticed that intelligence levels can vary with with snakes.



I think if you have two eastern kings going agaist each other the smarter one will win (kinda like a purple belt and a brown belt)but is the lower intelligence eastern able to beat the higher intelligence of the different style fighter the Indigo is?



Well Madmatt, coming from a BJJ guy that has florida kings and Dry's I must concede with some of your knowledge on who is the better fighter.



You bring up a good point about the Indigos being a smart animal. But will this intelligence be enough to take on a constrictor with one good submission?



You mentioned the Drys being able to crush (or cut off circulation on an animal. But a florida kings guard (BJJ term for wrapping around ones opponent) is going to catch the Indigo everytime. Now if the Indigo is smart enough to pass guard (from intelligence) then maybe it can gain control long enough to set that crushing submission bite in and fish the king. But not likely!



Personally I don't think a Indigo could stop a Eastern King with its crushing bite alone. Once the eastern gets going (even facing certain death) it will not stop . This is something different and more primative than humans could conceve in a fight. Kinda like a shark. Once their minds have been made up, good luck stopping them.





Anyone who has had a constrictor has possibly made the mistake of aloowing your snake to confuse it with a prey item. Well its nearly impossible to get them off even with human hands. This happens to me on occasion with the rosy boas I keep. They have big teeth for their size and wrap around and keep tightening. You can run them under water ect and some will just never give up.The more you try and unwrap the deeper the teeth sink in and the snake just has a way of transition from one submission to another.



So with the painful and possibly mortal wound the Indigo can inflict I still don't think its enough to get the eastern to quit (unlike us humans)and the eastern would prevail.



But as far as the Dry's intelligence in a fight well it would still have to be pretty damn smart to flat out pin and eleviate any of the Easterns submission choke. Yep!

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