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Animal interaction

Addereyes Oct 25, 2004 04:33 AM

Is their any stories you guys have with your/these snakes taking on ANY type of interesting behavior with other animals. I'am not talking about food. I'm talking about any other animals.

I'll give you an example (even though it's not an Indigo) once, I was walking to my dogs yard and I noticed he was stareing down a little gopher snake. I was stuck for a minute there.
" Charge in there and alert the snake with my feet vibrations or
yell at Archer and make him make a sudden movement when his head is that close to the snakes...which one...."

I decided on bieng still but giving him orders to go away (no seriously that's the deal, say go away, he moves back a couple of feet) He was in one of those states were he wouldn't except orders from me because he's too excited or curious. The little snake made a tiny hiss and then Archer knew it was kind of serious. He slowly started putting his noise up to it despite me slowly moveing toward the both of them and waving my hands and saying "no" and "stop" and "go away" and "bad dog", he was just too curious. He put that big black honky nose too close and the little gopher tagged him one write on the snause.(well it wasn't going head-rub him) He made a little puppy "YEIP!" . I didn't know if it actually hurt or or the quick little snake surprised him. I said screw it and walked over and grabed mutt-face and leeshed him to the fence for a few minutes and got the little snake in a big jar and moved it out of the dog yard.
That's what I'm talking about, except with Indigo's.

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oldherper Oct 25, 2004 07:13 PM

Any other animal will fall into one of 3 categories:

1. Food
2. A threat of some sort
3. A potential mate

Certain snakes (Indigos, certain elapids, etc.) seem to have a higher level of awareness of their surroundings than others, and even seem to be a little curious at times. However, in any actual encounter with another creature, they invariably fall into one of the above 3 categories. Snakes don't really interact with other animals the way a dog or cat does. They don't have the same level of intelligence for one thing. Everything they do is related to survival in one way or another. They do explore their surroundings, but that seems to be related strictly to locating food sources, water, or shelter.
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