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I noticed one of my high yellow kings shedding a few months back as I was heading out on an errand, and made a note to grab the shed when he was done. When I returned, I found the snake had managed to crawl reverse back into his shed, and the tail end was sticking off his nose. Despite being one of the strangest most amusing things I have seen a snake do, it was very confusing. The shed was torn, so I assume he was like that for a bit. And he wasn't overly stressed, just sitting there, looking as confused as me. Another first for me, and I kind of wonder what might have prompted him to do this? Any opinions?

And does anybody else notice slight different behaviors and traits among same species morphs? All I could think when I saw this, was it would be the high yellow that crawled back into his own skin haha. I find my high yellow kings can be just a bit crazy, but have the most endearing personalities, and extreme curiosity. As all these beautiful new morphs appear, its still the good old high yellow and banana king that keep me fixated.

I have seen that a couple times in my life.

what is really fun is when a baby once decided to crawl into a half of a fountain pen I had laying nearby and it could not get out and was crawling around with this pen stuck on its head and neck. Wish I had taken a video of that
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FR quote:
"Doing the same things over and over expecting to learn something else, is the definition of insanity"

Haha! That's amazing, that would have been a hilarious video. They get themselves into some ridiculous situations.

I have it many times, but then I leave the sheds in with them. At least a few. Yea I know!!!!

Ok, your new, so let me offer more things normally missing on here. Did you know, snakes shed their tongue. And its easy to see. If you look on the glass of our cages, about head height for the snakes, you can see tongue sheds fairly commonly.
They also shed their hemipene. The sheds can stick to the vent of the shed, and you can roll it out.

Ok, how about everytime you clean the cage. Your snake or snakes will come out and crap right in the middle. see that? Its them marking their home. I home you see it, its a good sign.
Normally where they live in nature, you can find sheds. Sheds also are a way of knowing Their area.

Pretty much everything they do has meaning. Why would it not?

Haha, I have pulled a few tongue sheds out of mouths, with out realizing that's what they were! My one king always has it stuck in his mouth, and I always end up pulling it out(he had rally bad nose rub before I acquired him)I always take the sheds out, just because they end up in a million pieces all over the place if I don't. So I don't give them much opportunity to do this. Maybe they got bored.

The point is, you do take sheds out for your reason/s, which have nothing to do with the snakes. When I say folks take everything the snakes know away, it also means sheds.
They recognize their own sheds, and other individuals sheds and other species sheds, Its part of their language.
I hate analogies, and mainly because they can be taken in so any ways, but I will offer one. Its like if something kept taking all your stuff out of your house and throwing it away. Your house is comfortable to you because it smells and has the feel of you and your family and your stuff. Of course stinky boys do mess it up some. But even stinky boys make your house yours. When one of those stinky boys moves out, You miss that smell and it hurts.
WE have all manner of artificial ways to communicate, animals don't. We rationalize, animals don't so much. Buy taking away, what is theirs, you are taking away their method of making a home.
I also never wash their stuff. And I move their stuff from cage to cage as they grow. Even little boxes they have outgrown.
So please understand, as you look at other people and wonder why they take so much away from animals and then think these animals do not do anything. You/we are doing the same to a lesser degree.
I say, study ethology. The reason is simple, it explains so much of this. One behavior is, when an animal attempts a behavior and cannot do it, it will stop trying. Forgive me, I forgot the name for that behavior. When more is taken away, more behaviors are surpressed, etc, until you have an animal that exists without life. This is what most people see in their cages. Snakes with all behavior surpressed. Sad huh?

I took this pic last year of a honduran milk doing the same thing.

Dennis

Sometimes while shedding, they will crawl back into the mouth of their shed and escape threw a little terr in the skin, leaving a shed in the shape of a hoop. I've had that happen twice. Sometimes you really have to look good to find where they exited.
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Thats always intriguing too, I have had that happen only once. This little guy crawled out of his skin, and than right back in. He must have waited a bit to because the skin was dry at the time.

I've got a big albino male that did that for the first time this year. Head scratcher.

reako45