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What's this? (Sorry about the quality of the pics, they were taken in the dark.)




Miller Reptiles

my guess...either a dominance battle or a mating ritual..should be one of the 2

Chris
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1.1.0 Irian x Jungle Carpet Pythons
1.2.0 Black Rats- Robert, Cady, Kylie
1.2.0 Albino FL Kings-Nick, Jessica, Ashley
1.1.0 Crimson Corns-Kane, Ruby
0.1.0 Het-Crimson Corns-Lola
0.1.0 White-Sided/Pos Het Albino Black Rat-Lita
1.0.0 Albino White-sided Black Rat-Rey
0.1.0 Albino/Het White-sided Black Rat-Stacey
1.2.0 Creamsicle Corns-Vince, Trish, Torrie
0.1.0 Fl King-Bonnie
1.0.1 Green Tree Pythons Biak-Brandon, Aru-Orochimaru
1.0.0 Flame X Blood Bearded-Ruff
2.4.0 Ball Pythons-Kritsy, Gretchen, Alexis, 100% het for albino balls- Naruto, Hinata, 66% het VPI Axanthic-Sasuke
0.1.0 Red-tail Boa-Xena
0.0.1 Savannah Monitor-Izzy

Two males combating? I like Womas a lot

Thanks,
Celia
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Celia Chien
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Anybody who's been over to my house on a Saturday afternoon has probably seen a bunch of Womas crawling around on the living room floor. (It's exercise day, these are active snakes, I like to let them out to explore once a week.) It's especially neat when the males are out, I sometimes have two separate combats going on at the same time. I couldn't capture it on the pics very well, it happens so fast. But they intertwine their bodies, then lift their front halves vertically and engage in a tug-of-war, all the while continuing to wrap around each other. They fall to the ground, then repeat. Really cool. During breeding season I use multiple males to stimulate breeding. You hear these loud "thunk" noises coming from their room as they crash against the side of the cage. I have found that the ones who engage in this behavior are also the good breeders.

It's lunch time and thet're following the same scent trail???? Looks like a mating ritual to me also.

Quig

so what is it?