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    Quote Originally Posted by TumbleWeed View Post
    If what you were saying was true about snakes doing more than just "taking it" in regards to handling and they do it because of some type of recognition how do you explain keepers who are bitten by snakes which have handled fine 1000 times before they decided to take a chomp?
    Maybe they smelled particularly bad that day and the snake was kindly pointing out that fact?

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    NO! its like saying great whites can become friendly if people swim with them enough!

    i did watch a cool show on TV ages ago on intel on monitors! and using different coloured balls! each time it bit the white ball it got fed! black ball it didnt! eventually they figured it out!

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    My snakes understand that if they bite me I'll turn them into a belt (hence they don't bite)...good thing they understand english
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