RedFox
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A few days ago I was talking with a friend. Anyway apparently she has this really rare breed of cat with only so many left on the wild. It just looks like a moggy to me. Anyhow I asked her if her cat became extinct in the wild and hers was one of the few in captivity if she would allow it to be released into the wild. She said no, but then asked me if I would do the same for my snakes. I said yes.
Before I had snakes I always thought they were instinctual animals and there would be little to no difference between the behaviour of captive and their wild counterparts. So if a captive animal was released it would survive as if nothing had happened. My little tanami woma I believe would have no problem, but the same can't be said for my Uluru woma. He seems to be all beauty and no brains. I was wondering if anyone else had snakes they know probably would survive in the wild. Ones from the shallow end of the gene pool.
For example last night I fed Edison (my uluru woma). He was in his hide so I tapped the glass (that's his signal for feed time) and he came sauntering out. I put his rat on the heat tile. I normally face it a certain way but because I was half a sleep it was facing a slightly different way. For normal snakes this wouldn't matter but Edison spent the next 20mins trying to to eat the rat from the middle.
Then he worked his way down to the bottom and spent the next 30mins eating it tail first. Eventually he did manage to eat it then slithered back to his hide thoroughly exhausted.
This isn't a one off either, the rat has to face a certain way. Surely there are others out there that due to their quirks wouldn't survive.
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Before I had snakes I always thought they were instinctual animals and there would be little to no difference between the behaviour of captive and their wild counterparts. So if a captive animal was released it would survive as if nothing had happened. My little tanami woma I believe would have no problem, but the same can't be said for my Uluru woma. He seems to be all beauty and no brains. I was wondering if anyone else had snakes they know probably would survive in the wild. Ones from the shallow end of the gene pool.
For example last night I fed Edison (my uluru woma). He was in his hide so I tapped the glass (that's his signal for feed time) and he came sauntering out. I put his rat on the heat tile. I normally face it a certain way but because I was half a sleep it was facing a slightly different way. For normal snakes this wouldn't matter but Edison spent the next 20mins trying to to eat the rat from the middle.
Then he worked his way down to the bottom and spent the next 30mins eating it tail first. Eventually he did manage to eat it then slithered back to his hide thoroughly exhausted.
This isn't a one off either, the rat has to face a certain way. Surely there are others out there that due to their quirks wouldn't survive.
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