Re: Urgent ! Piece of bark in snake's mouth !!
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Originally Posted by
nachash
That sounds like the beginning of a very interesting Ball Python story :P
Hahaha! Yes, there is a story behind that...
Ella pounded her mouse one night so fast, that I dropped it out of surprise. As a result, she missed it on the first strike and it landed in the cypress mulch bedding. Since I feed f/t, it was slightly damp so it got pretty covered in mulch. Well, I wasn't reaching in there to retrieve it as Ella was still hunting, lol, and she went after it anyhow. Once she'd swallowed it, her mouth looked like she'd had an argument with a porcupine with pieces of mulch sticking out all over the place. I didn't figure there was really anything I could do so I decided to keep an eye on her for the evening and see if she was able to spit it all out on her own.
She managed to get most out within the next 10-20min or so, but one piece was stubborn - stuck up in the roof of the mouth kind of like the op's snake except there was one end sticking out from the corner of her mouth. As I watched, after much rubbing and yawning, she finally twisted around and positioned her head against the corner of her hide box. She did this very deliberately. Once she caught the end of the piece of mulch on the edge of her hide, she opened her mouth and flicked her head backwards and out popped the mulch!
I've never witnessed anything like that before! And it proved to me that every living creature operates on its own level of intelligence. They may not be on the same level as us humans, but in some ways, they may be even smarter! I know better than to underestimate Ella again!
Re: Urgent ! Piece of bark in snake's mouth !!
