Does anyone else have thayeri that like to climb? I had always been told that thayeri were a ground snake, but mine loves to climb. She was constantly climbing and hanging on to the cage cover and hanging upside down, and she loves to burrow tunnels through her substrate. She would climb her plastic cactus, so I put a plastic branch in as well. Just as I thought, she loves to climb that as well. Also, she is the only snake I have seen that remains very active after eating. Other snakes I owned would hide and become inactive for two days after eating. My thayeri, within 15 minutes of consuming a meal, will be back to her old antics of hanging upside down from the roof of the cage and climbing over everything!!! Just wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior in their thayeri or other mexicana.
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Climbing Thayeri?
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Most of my thayeri are the same way.
If you have ever hunted for alterna in west Texas you would know that most of the time they are found in the "cuts" along highways. The cuts are like cliffs that the altera climb by wedgeing their bodies in crevices and cracks and working their way either up or down the cut/cliff face. I would bet if we were able to hunt for thayeri we would employ the same methods alterna hunters use. They probably live alot of their lives in a vertical world looking for lizards in many parts of their habitat.
Bob might be able to give us more insight on this.
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Vichris
That's very true. Many snakes are good climbers, if not all. Me and my friend watched an alterna climb all over a 50-75 foot high sheer rock face for 45 minutes one night before we finally decided it wasn't going to come down near our bright lights to get caught. Somewhat suprisingly I have seen many rattlesnakes, garters, nightsnakes, longnose, ratsnakes, etc. on cuts as well. I have even heard of people finding copperheads well off the ground in bushes.
Ditto what Vichris said...and to add, all my hatchlings raise their heads up when I hold them, as if looking for higher ground...
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