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shelley7950
at Mon May 16 07:47:22 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by shelley7950 ]
I'm glad you brought this up...I've never seen my baird's react this way, probably because he has yet to refuse a meal, but my hognose (a notoriously picky eater) does it all the time...he gets extremely agitated when there's a dead prey item in his tank that he doesn't want to eat, coils around it, and hisses and strikes viciously if I attempt to remove it...he'll stay that way for hours...when I finally get the mouse out (using a piece of cardboard to fend him off while I grab the mouse with the other hand) he actually seems relieved, and will then almost immediately relax and go back into his hide...I've never heard of this behavior with snakes either, and wonder what it means, and if it's common to most species...Since snakes are so solitary, you wouldn't think they'd need to guard anything, but it's hard to say what else that behavior could mean...hmmmm...
SR
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