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Originally Posted by peterjohnson64

the diamond python god, Serpentongue.

The cheques in the mail, Pete Oh and by the way, that's two "T"'s in serpenttongue

Originally Posted by peterjohnson64

But what I really want to point out is the strange way I got it to eat (by accident). I had been rubbing the mice in front of it for a while and she moved away and then I rubbed it against her body and she reacted by wrapping around the mouse and then whammo, she struck.

Yep, i've been getting them to feed this way for years. If you bump or rub the pinky along the sides of the hatchlings body it really excites them and they'll constrict it with a coil first, and then turn and grab it with the mouth. I've had babies constrict a pinky with their tail and then bring the pinky(still being held by the tail) up to their head, and then bite it and start swallowing.

It's like when you try picking up a hungry python from its cage and you go to grab it at midsection and it instinctively shoves its body to one side and tries trapping your hand between their body and the side of their enclosure, and then they turn around to bite the hand. Much like womas squeezing prey against the walls of narrow burrows.