Im watching you....

I guess snakes really do have a curious mind, the constant "staring" behavior actually amazes me....i always wonder what their thinking in their little heads lol :D

Mine always has her head sticking out of her hide unless she just ate. Always.:O

Talk about a coincidence! I JUST recorded and uploaded this from tonight. The vid is self explanatory... :D I noticed them both just sitting there watching me, even when I moved close to the tubs. So I grabbed my video cam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vODht...1&feature=plcp

I have two that do this. My big male pastel pokes his head out of hide and stares at me or my dog. My bumblebee will come out and follow me or my wife up and down her tank. At first I thought she was hungry but she does it all the time. She loves to come out and say hi.

oh yes, this is regular at our house. We have 14 snakes and no racks, so someone is always hungry, begging, peeking or watching. The corn snake only comes out and stares at us when he's hungry...and the hognose snakes too. They will watch me when i'm over by their tanks, but they follow me back and forth if they're hungry. It's so easy to personify them...they just act so different when they know food comes from *you* lol

Our female ball periscopes sometimes to see what we're doing, and we just got a new pastel male baby who does the same. Both of those will periscope and peek, when held. They both love to look around, and stick their faces in what we're doing when we're holding them. Cracks me up, and we have to be careful sometimes or we'll have snake into whatever we're holding or doing lol.
The other balls aren't that curious, and stay mostly in hides. Though i've noticed that two of those boys seem to love it when i switch up their cages after being cleaned. They'll cruise around, wrap around branches and sniff around. They'll do that at first and then just settle to stare at me, or else go back in their hides.

I swear we are being begged sometimes though. Some people argue with me and say snakes are creatures of instinct...which is true...but i will tell you, when you have been begged by a 4.25 foot ball python, you *know* it's begging. lol funniest thing i ever saw!
His huge tank is on cinder blocks (covertly hidden so it looks not so white trash lol) on the floor, and i sit on the floor in the corner sometimes organizing herp stuff. We'd had him about 3 months, and he was shy, etc. Well one day, he just wanted to eat. And he sure let me know. Nosing the corner i was in, following me, even reaching up to the lid to stretch after me as i walked by, following, sticking his nose and pushing on the glass...it was ridiculous. He ate instantly when we offered *lol* complete personality change for him, since he was so scared, and had been an abused snake.

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Talk about a coincidence! I JUST recorded and uploaded this from tonight. The vid is self explanatory... :D I noticed them both just sitting there watching me, even when I moved close to the tubs. So I grabbed my video cam.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vODhtop9GyI&list=UUvKjdQBSDi00PGl4ZfVuewA&index=1&feature=plcp

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This is EXACTLY what my rat snakes do, my hypo everglades did it the other night for like an hour straight just following my finger everywhere lol. A great video Knox, good catch! :gj:

My pine snake does that all the time. I get the unsettling feeling that she's evaluating whether or not she's big enough to eat me.