FR, in your "choice theory", you are ASSUMING that individuals make choices to procreate! Sex is a choice, procreation is an instinct, a VERY big difference. If you give snakes choices they DONT have in nature(such as temps over 60 in winter)you cause or remove stress that could be the trigger for sexual reproduction. Just because they like jelly donuts doesnt mean you should feed em jelly donuts!! Individuals will whole heartedly make individual decisions that affect long term changes in the cause and effect relationships that have made them into the animals they are today. You either change the animals or you change their environment and let that environment change the animal! Either way--same result. Captive, domesticated strains of wild animals. You CHOOSE to like to observe choices animals make, but these choices are no more productive than age old breeding methods. I assure you that in nature the first clutches arent infertile, it has to be their first/BEST attempt. The fact that you can manipulate them eventually to be fertile.....I can do that in a box without any observational effort.

So, with bit in teeth, besides your own personal preference to spend time WATCHING snakes and to be different, what good does it do to give our captives choices as snake breeders??

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