Its eating your finger and you say well it must appear as a rat pup to him and then you say its got nothing to do with hunger :shock: Its not albert einstein stuff here,this post should have been called the dumbest keepers ever,give the snakes a break :roll:Glimmerman said:
Zulu, an animal that try's to swallow something 500 times larger than itself is not what i would call an intelligent animal. Hence the title of the thread. The snake is fed every 3 days, so is not overly hungry, but obviously to be trying to eat something, he must have a little rumbling in the stomach so to speak.
Spotted pythons take up there positions around caves etc when they are hungry and wait for an opportunity to catch it,if they are not hungry they dont take up the opportunity.My snakes including spotteds dont do the eat the fingers routine because i keep themoof the boil by feeding them appropriate sized food items.If you give a snake the opportunity to feed in the winter which is in the mating period for many northern species they sometimes eat but mostly decline because the warmth stimulates hunger which predesposes them to lay in wait or search for prey in warm months.In captivity the the young snakes are kept warm all the time which stimulates the feeling of constant hunger hence the agro feeding response. Cheers :lol:Wrasse said:
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