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21-Aug-06, 05:41 PM
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Okay after some discussion with a friend, i was wanting to know
will a larger male python fight a smaller python  :
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when the fight occurs do the males get stuck into it or do they try and put the head on top of one another like i told him :  |
21-Aug-06, 05:43 PM
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They go hell for leather and absolutely smash each other! It is really dangerous to your snakes hrealth if it is done in an enclosure for the simple fact that the loser can't run away.
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21-Aug-06, 05:44 PM
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If the smaller male is too young to be sexually mature then it's most likely neither of them will try and fight. If he's big enough for mating then yeah they'll probably go at it.
They do get stuck into it if not separated at the "head butting" stage. They will even on occasion fight to the death.
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21-Aug-06, 05:45 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Lost | | | so have you read this or is this from experience
just no one has said they have seen them fight |
21-Aug-06, 05:47 PM
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if u hav your snakes in an enclosure together u could end up with one of your snakes head through the glass |
21-Aug-06, 05:48 PM
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A fella who i spoke to on another forum used to do this with his coastals, he posted some pics of it and it is extremely violent when they get stuck in. So yeah i have seen it... kinda
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21-Aug-06, 05:49 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Lost | | | i have read that if one male is smaller the pair will not fight and that they will only fight when the pair are of equal sizes
is this right
do you know the thread |
21-Aug-06, 05:50 PM
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21-Aug-06, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Lost_in_the_Jungle i have read that if one male is smaller the pair will not fight and that they will only fight when the pair are of equal sizes
is this right
do you know the thread | was not on this forum and no the thread is no longer there.
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21-Aug-06, 05:51 PM
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( you know i am right )
JDP is the person i was discussing this with |
21-Aug-06, 05:54 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Central QLD | | | | It depends on what you mean by equal sizes. If as I said before one of them is not sexually mature then they probably wont fight. But if you mean will two adult males of different sizes fight then the answer is yes. It's not about size it's about who gets the girl :wink:
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21-Aug-06, 05:56 PM
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21-Aug-06, 05:57 PM
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A few years ago I put an 18 month old male in with a large (approximately 8 year old, close to 10' long) male, they did the normal combat thing, twining up and trying to get on top of each other, surprisingly the smaller one (probably about 10% of the weight of the larger one) was better at it and "won", he ended up copulating with the female, the larger male went off and curled up in a hide box. I kept the three snakes together for a few months and the female had fertile eggs that season. I didn't see any combat after the first night.
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21-Aug-06, 05:58 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-06 Location: Lost | | | i am just going by what it said in
Pythons of Australia
by Geordie Torr
it says Quote " If one male is smaller than the other it will usually avoid combat and move away " |
21-Aug-06, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by J.D.P someone please tell him hes wrong he wont admit it even after all of u guys have said he is | Just tell him he wins, he is right, you are wrong. It'll shut him up. | | |
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