Corns have a natural reaction in the wild to rattle their tails against dead leaves and create a sound of a 'rattle'. This response tends to ward off potential predators.
The reason your corn is doing this is due to the 'wild' response. Even though these animals are many generations captive bred, they are still far from domestic. When released for long periods of time, they tend to regress back to their wild instincts. Alot of times, even bringing them outside to roam on the fresh grass will illicit this response.
A few days of normal handeling and TLC should help your corn to remember who he was before his adventure. No worries, you will have your old corn back soon enough.

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• Another question about corns and tail shaking - cee4, Thu Aug 26 20:54:06 2004
• This is a rather natural 'ingrained' behavior - riiotgrrl, Thu Aug 26 21:50:04 2004
• Thanks - cee4, Fri Aug 27 13:39:11 2004