How can you tell your BP likes you?

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Or, in simple terms, the BP didn't find the other animal as a good mate. Maybe weak genes, maybe some other sign we don't understand or can identify. But that this animal isn't a strong and good mate to copulate with and produce offspring. :gj:

It's about survival, not fun.

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Maybe his pheromones didn't have enough funk?:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Wow, just a few short decades ago?! :O:O:O:O:O

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Yes, a few decades ago. But realize that was the mindset of the "modern scientists" at that time; opinions (or scientific "facts" on such matters) change. I would bet the ancient Greeks realized that infants could feel pain.

Likewise many many ancient cultures revered snakes as dieties or mediums to the spiritual realms. Not just primative cultures either. Now days many "modern people" see snakes as primative reptiles with very very limited limited capacity to think or experience anything.

Okay I am rambling here but this type of topic inspires me. I do not know what goes on in my BP's mind on a daily basis, for all I know he could sit around meditating all day, perhaps being at a comfy 92 degrees is a form of bliss we cannot even concieve of.

I just know I will not assume the "modern scientists" have more insight into the matter.

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Originally Posted by Spaniard

Maybe his pheromones didn't have enough funk?:rolleyes:

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brown chicken brown cow! :P

Along the lines of the whole, we dont know if reptiles can really "think" and parrots having the minds of 5 year olds, and scientists making things up as they go because they just DONT know how the brain really works...

People should look up Synesthesia. There was an episode on the science channel that was pretty dang interesting!

I didnt think it was real, UNTIL i really listened to what people were saying about it in the show. I figured, how the heck is that possible.... theres no way... But its real, and these people arent making it up, One man even came up with a test to show that it is real! Interesting stuff, and just more reasons to prove that noone knows how the brain truly works :)

mooingtricycle give us a synopsis. What was it about?

I don't think my snakes like me at all. I think certain snakes just don't feel as stressed out about you as others. I have some snakes (mainly my boa) that will be stressed for a moment and then calm down while you handle. Others just do not like handling at all. They stress a lot over it so I leave them alone.

So I don't think it has anything to do with like or dislike, just their stress levels.

Intelligence is still different from emotion. My snakes don't seem to exhibit much of either.

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Originally Posted by darkangel

Intelligence is still different from emotion. My snakes don't seem to exhibit much of either.

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Very true, there are many brilliant sociopaths that feel very little emotion. On the otherhand I do believe many/most emotions are a product of hormones (in all species). To see female BP's protecting their eggs, they feel anxiety over a threat and that is as much emotion as anything.

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Originally Posted by Sonya610

Very true, there are many brilliant sociopaths that feel very little emotion. On the otherhand I do believe many/most emotions are a product of hormones (in all species). To see female BP's protecting their eggs, they feel anxiety over a threat and that is as much emotion as anything.

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Do they actually feel anxiety? Or do they know what danger is? Is it instinct to wrap the eggs, or is it motivation for fear over the loss of eggs to protect? Or are the doing what the hormones in their bodies tell them to do, drive them to do, make them do without a passing thought as to why they are doing it?

littleindiangirl I doubt if they overanalyze it. They feel a strong need to protect, and they do. I think humans are very much the same way, but we like to think we aren't. Hormones are very powerful, humans often use their brains to "justify" their hormone induced feelings.

A couple of years ago I got the chance to watch canadian geese raise their families, they are the most monogamous devoted creatures, such incredibly protective parents. If humans displayed those traits they would be considered morally sound, loving, wonderful and devoted people and all that, but when animals display the same traits it is often just called "instinct." I tend to think hormones have a lot to do with it in either case. : )