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FR
at Wed Nov 16 09:27:30 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]
Hmmmmm why do you disagree over something I did not say. of course they can smell eachother from another cage. Must be torture hey?
Pheromones are a fancy term for scent, you already know that males scent mark things, like territory, trails, objects, possessions, etc. Both males and females emit pheromones. They do that for many reasons its one way to comunicate with eachother.
Haven't you ever been out in the field with another herper and all of a sudden you heard a scream, AWWWWWWW I've been Pheromoned. hahahahahahahahaha and it stinks, AWWWWWWWWWWW. Pheromoned right in the eye, AWWWWWWWWWW
So I wonder. you tooooooo seem to grab at straws(self supporting excuses) Let me see, you support your actions by relating back to production. Hmmmmmmmmmm yet you wonder about their behaviors. They are more then production. AND whos this production for? Is this production solely for your benefit(to sell, to boast, to possess) or is it a reflection of the abilities, health, and potential of the captive snakes?
There is nothing wrong with any of those motives, its just about understanding. I may be wrong, but if its about production, then it appears many of you are not very good. Considering the amount of snakes owned and lack of production. I mean if its production, your concern would be more about meeting production goals, then inducing behavior. For instance, a keeper with thirty females, should easily produce over three hundred offspring a year. With a solid attainable goal of 600 per year.
To make this reeeeaaaaaaal simple, most of this stuff we do, is mainly to break up boredom. For instance all those morphs you breed, they are boredom breakers. But when you produce anyone of those morphs in number, you will again be bored. So you make or buy another morph. They do not have to be prettier or nicer, they just have to not be boring. You can sell new things better, because they are new, not better. This whole market of morphs is based on boredom. Produce something to take the boredom away. Mainly because the method of keeping is BORING.
So you keep them with a protocal of efficiency, little boxes, sterlite, etc, to mimic a labortory. Think about this sir. Overall, this is boring and produces boredom.
Yet those snakes in your cages, all possess the ability to not be boring. They are no more then a bag of behaviors that is massive and complicated, entertaining, curious, fun, and scary. Which means, they are not boring. They are a never ending bag of entertainment.
Now whats so funny is, if it wasn't for that old paradign of our own human behaviors(so and so does it this way), we would understand, we could just as easily do both, production and entertainment, and not be bored. How cool is that????????? you don't even need new snakes, you can keep expressing new behaviors from the ones you got. Instead of constantly switching snake types around to not be bored, switch cage types around, its actually cheaper and self supporting. FR
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RE: Better yet, you tell me. - FR, Wed Nov 16 09:27:30 2005