Lateralisation side dominance

[Addam]

hey guys, have you ever noticed while feeding your snakes the each snake has a certain motion in which it likes to coil (either clockwise or anti-clockwise)

 

[euphorion]

Pretty sure they don't pay attention to things like that... "hmmm, left, or right today? Been a bit lefty lately, think i'll go right!"

Statistically speaking i'm sure you'd eventually find some correlation if only out of habit.

 

[fishbot]

It actually makes a lot of sense. Most people have both a dominant leg as well as a dominant arm and this has been observed in quadraped animals too.

As vaguely suggested by post #2, the stats will tell you the truth. Start a log book of each time your snake coils and then you can see if it is significant or not.

 

[Boidae]

There was an episode on Snakebytes where they tested this theory, I'll see if I can find the episode.
Here we go.

SnakeBytesTV-WTF is this show about??? - YouTube

 

[lmnw57]

Awesome clip!!!