So what happens when individuals from two unrelated populations of kings meet? The cannibalism kicks in?


If one is hungry and the other either not interested in copulating or not in cycle.. anything is possible. They are predators designed to survive.

Probably the same chances that people take who introduce a male into the females cage the traditional way.


The whole topic about scent glands proves that bonding recognition is a fact. what they do not recognize, they may just see as food.


But as FR mentioned.. part of the whole scenting is so that kings avoid or do not travel outside of their bonded groups into "enemy territory".

All animals are territorial. People are territorial ..ever get mad when someone sat in your seat in school?

The scenting is just a way for them to mark and recognize the territories. Otherwise if they didn't, we would have no kingsnakes as they would have eaten each other.
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Another oddity, snakes have scent glands, hmmmmmmmmmm what are they for?
FR

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