Yeah... she ate that

Hmm... Well, all my geckos eat their sheds, so I guess it isn't out of the ballpark that a BP would eat theirs to regain nutrients.

Also a thought, maybe the shed contained some poo or residue (mine often do) and the poo smelled of rat causing her to eat it for that reason?

It seems bizarre to me given some Royals won't even eat mice or rats readily :)


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Shes definitely an eater, and it has not been a full week since her last meal, I'm just- shocked! Checked in on her this morning and of course shes doing just fine lol. It did in fact have a poop in the shed so let's just see how that goes down twice!

I love that the collective response to this in a fb post I made is just a collection of various "what the fuuuuck", has no one ever caught a pic of this behavior?!

Course this is the only mark I ever make in the scientific community...

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Course this is the only mark I ever make in the scientific community...

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From now on it will be known as the 'Cass Effect'. Congratulations!

And: I've NEVER seen that before. :O

It makes some sense from a survival standpoint too: snakes rely on not being discovered by their own predators, and what better way to let your enemies
know you are there than by essentially hanging your clothes out like a big flag for all to see & smell. BPs don't move around much either, so keeping their
location for ambush-hunting a secret makes some survival sense.

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Hmm... Well, all my geckos eat their sheds, so I guess it isn't out of the ballpark that a BP would eat theirs to regain nutrients.

Also a thought, maybe the shed contained some poo or residue (mine often do) and the poo smelled of rat causing her to eat it for that reason?

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Or if fed live, the shed could have smelled of rodent urine from when the snake made a kill?

Thats crazy!! Lol

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It wouldn't have been so bad but I had to help him out of his shed...he got stuck going in backwards...:oops:

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Funniest case of stuck shed there ever was :rofl:Snakes really are such goofs sometimes!

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Shes definitely an eater, and it has not been a full week since her last meal, I'm just- shocked! Checked in on her this morning and of course shes doing just fine lol. It did in fact have a poop in the shed so let's just see how that goes down twice!

I love that the collective response to this in a fb post I made is just a collection of various "what the fuuuuck", has no one ever caught a pic of this behavior?!

Course this is the only mark I ever make in the scientific community...

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Congrats you've documented rare and never-before-seen ball python behaviour and debunked the saying that "BPs don't eat their shed" :D

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It seems bizarre to me given some Royals won't even eat mice or rats readily :)

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Maybe you should all be saving their sheds to use like sausage-casings over their f/t mice & rats? :rofl:

This is great, I am a SCIENTIST, I can't wait to tell my possible future children and their sprogs about my contribution to the ball python world!

I can only imagine how little they'll care 😂