Eric,
....I have never seen that. Other subspecies of Rainbow Boas do accasionally curl their tails. I have only seen this when they are aggitated and I assume that it is some sort of defensive behaviour (spelled the British way). My first pair of asissi were kept together when little. After I got the second pair and had quarantined them awhile, I kept the two females together and the two males together. As soon as I guessed they might be mature I put males with females and they began mating within a couple days. Because of being kept with siblings throughout their lives they were accustomed to activity and that may be why I saw no defensive behavior (spelled the right way) when I introduced them for breeding. Good luck with breeding yours.
Jeff
>>Jeff, I have a trio of Assisi that I have been cooling seperately since November. Yhis morning (UK time), I put them together in a large cage in the hope of breeding them, and was surprised to see all three snakes immediately raise the last third of their bodies vertically with tightly curled tails, to resemble large, rounded heads.
>>The snakes positioned themselves with their erect tails 'facing' each other and their heads facing away, and stayed in this position for some time before moving away from each other and coiling in seperate areas of the cage.
>>I have come to the conclusion that this behaviour is a defensive posture,but it is something that I have never observed before. Have you observed this kind of behaviour with your Assisi??
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>>Eric Davies
