My big male insists on constricting an already-dead, thawed rat. It is kind of cute, really.. it is funny, because he was supposedly fed only f/t rats before I got him (last September.) Mybe they lied, and he was used to constricting live mice? I geuss I will never know. But he always constricts the dead prey!
Just an odd-ball, but I guess they all are; that's why we love 'em.
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Do your BPs constrict f/t thawed prey?
ginevive
Dec 16, 2003 07:38 AM
Replies (4)
Tigergenesis
Dec 16, 2003 08:47 AM
Mine still constricts FT prey. Perhaps it's because its so warm he can't tell that its not alive?
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Carlton
Dec 16, 2003 11:51 AM
I would guess constricting prey is a very hard wired instinctive reflex and it might take many generations to unravel the wire. In captivity bps who don't constrict and still get to eat will survive...eventually the strength of the reflex may grow less and less.
jamison
Dec 16, 2003 02:02 PM
omg...the funniest thing happen to me....I ate frozen/thawed meat, and i chewed it!!!
ginevive
Dec 16, 2003 03:49 PM
Ha. Ha. Ha.
lol!
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