Does anyone have a snake that wags it's tail?

[Oxylepy]

Last week when I went to feed my new lesser he looked at the prey and his tail started waggin, then he struck and he settled down. Today I went in to check on him and when I picked him up his tail was wagging. It stopped after a second but it was fairly entertaining. When I get him eating for me and actually start handling him I'll have to see if he keeps doing this.

[Kaorte]

I think it is a mature male thing if I remember correctly. Some kind of breeding thing.

I have seen it happen with other ball pythons, not my own though.

It is pretty hilarious. I think if you check youtube for "ball python tail wagging" you should get some videos of it.

[BAD Morphs]

Here is a video of my femlae tail waggin. I took this two days ago.
YouTube - Pastel Female Tail Waggin

[Oxylepy]

Hrm, that's interesting. I notice that your female, like my new lesser, has a rather long and slender tail, while my other BPs have noticibly thicker tails. Perhaps the two are linked.

[BAD Morphs]

I doubt it because all of my females but two were tail waggin that have fatter tails than she does. I just happened to have the camera there when she was doing it.

[iCandiBallPythons]

Sure do! Also gets my newspaper

[Lupe]

Maybe they're just happy to see you

[Swoof]

I haven't really noticed it on the ball pythons. The Angolan Pythons have more of "tail" after their vent and they wag it around alot when feeding. I think they kind of use it to attract attention away from their mouth when they are ready to strike, lol.

[Eventide]

My female Woma only wags her tail when she's really ticked off at me. Sometimes, she does it so violently that she flips her shavings around!

[likebull1]

All of my females do it before breeding and some of my males will do it sometimes before feeding