begnik
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Hi there all,
I'm somewhat of a newbie, only having owned our Jungle for about a year, and I didn't know about this forum until recently, so I thought I'd join and post a curiosity.
We have a 2yo Jungle, around 1.2m long and very chilled out. She (no idea of sex, although we've called her 'Khaleesi') struck me once when we first got her, but hasn't struck at anyone (except our dog who got a little close once) since. She's increasingly comfortable on my sons and I when we handle her, and doesn't seem to crave reprieve at all now, unlike when she was smaller and younger.
Anyway, when I'm handling her (which often means having her just slide all over my shoulders, neck and head while I'm working on my computer), she will often find two points of purchase, around 20cm apart (eg: my neck and my arm or my neck and my armpit), and she will sort of flex and release her muscles between those two points before moving her body along about 2cm and then do it again. She will spend a long time, and a lot of physical effort doing this all along her body...it's almost as though she's excercising. The effort is such that her outbreath after flexing is often audible, as though she's releasing after her 'squeezing' exercises. Sometimes the pressure is really quite strong! I'm very careful to not handle food before handling her, so I'm sure she's not in constriction mode.
Just thought I'd see if this behaviour is normal or exceptional - I can't find ANYTHING online about it.
Thanks so much for your input!
Cheers!
Nick.
PS: She escaped July, we think into our roof cavity, and basically thought she was gone for good (and really couldn't do anything about it)...until she turned up again (in the bathroom) 5 months later in November. This was somewhat of a shock, and we're pretty sure she'd not eaten in that time. She was SUPER hungry. We've since upped our security measures.
I'm somewhat of a newbie, only having owned our Jungle for about a year, and I didn't know about this forum until recently, so I thought I'd join and post a curiosity.
We have a 2yo Jungle, around 1.2m long and very chilled out. She (no idea of sex, although we've called her 'Khaleesi') struck me once when we first got her, but hasn't struck at anyone (except our dog who got a little close once) since. She's increasingly comfortable on my sons and I when we handle her, and doesn't seem to crave reprieve at all now, unlike when she was smaller and younger.
Anyway, when I'm handling her (which often means having her just slide all over my shoulders, neck and head while I'm working on my computer), she will often find two points of purchase, around 20cm apart (eg: my neck and my arm or my neck and my armpit), and she will sort of flex and release her muscles between those two points before moving her body along about 2cm and then do it again. She will spend a long time, and a lot of physical effort doing this all along her body...it's almost as though she's excercising. The effort is such that her outbreath after flexing is often audible, as though she's releasing after her 'squeezing' exercises. Sometimes the pressure is really quite strong! I'm very careful to not handle food before handling her, so I'm sure she's not in constriction mode.
Just thought I'd see if this behaviour is normal or exceptional - I can't find ANYTHING online about it.
Thanks so much for your input!
Cheers!
Nick.
PS: She escaped July, we think into our roof cavity, and basically thought she was gone for good (and really couldn't do anything about it)...until she turned up again (in the bathroom) 5 months later in November. This was somewhat of a shock, and we're pretty sure she'd not eaten in that time. She was SUPER hungry. We've since upped our security measures.
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