Dispel Myth: Is one gender more aggressive than the other?

It's always odd to me to see people worried if their snake takes an occasional jab at them. I mean, these aren't domesticated animals that have been in direct contact with humans for eons of time, they aren't animals that anyone believes have a pack or herd instinct driving them.

I grew up around a lot of farmers. I've seen domesticated cattle kick and drop a big guy to the ground, I've seen a bull suddenly turn and put it's owner into a wall (that owner delivered that bull, raised it it's whole life too). They didn't fuss, they didn't wonder why, they just went on with their work. I think that people like this instinctively know that any living creature, at any moment can present a risk. It's a risk they just expect, manage and don't much think about - it's just what it is.

Remember too, statistically what bites and creates the most injuries yearly to the human race - pet dogs. Yet we keep millions of them, allow them to roam loose with our kids, consider them "family". We forget because we are so bonded to our dogs that they too are just animals and in the end, will react like any animal - sometimes with a very poor outcome. Yet more people ask me about our snakes biting our kids and forget a 70 lb dog is in this house. That's very odd to me LOL.

Yeah, it seems backwards to me, too. I mean, I don't mind getting tagged by a snake (as long its not a hot...lol). I was just wondering if there was a gender difference.

I am woman, hear me ROAR... :P

I have no idea as I don't own a female (YET) But Furio is extremely non aggressive.

"You must spread some reputation around before giving it to Frankykeno again"---very well said in that last post!!! And also so very, very true.

I'm with Jo totally on this. I had a 3,000g plus female that I used for an education program who has always been a big sweetie,(kids could hold her) and one of her smallish sons I wouldn't dream about letting anyone but me hold, because he bit me several times. And the whole dog thing, yeah. In Philly, pit bulls are the number one animal that are kept as pets.Snakes, crocodilians, and other large exotics are very popular, but when you look at the statistics, there's a HUGE difference in the number of bites between them. I'd like to really do a statistic comparison between the two......i think it'd be interesting.