Most intelligent snake...

I'd say Green Rat Snakes and Bloods. GRSs just because they seem smart to me (they're so curious!) and Bloods since they seem to know their owners (a guy in my highschool once had a Blood that let it's owner, him, and some other folks handle it but nipped at anyone else).

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Originally Posted by Brett89

Boa constrictors are not dumb whatsoever...some may be just like humans...but i keep over 20 boas and 2 retics and 8 ball pythons and i've noticed that out of the three ball pythons seem to be the dumbest...i do have two that are about the same as boas, but i haven't had a boa dumb enough to try to climb a side of their tub and fall over backwards because they go to far. I personally think retics are the smartest.

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We have 1 each of Kenyan Sand Boa, Ball Python, Jungle Carpet Python, Rosy Boa, and temporary visitor Black Rat Snake. I was going to say that the Ball Python was dumb but sweet - but was afraid to dis her. So I'm glad you said it first. I know 1 is not a good sample in any way, shape or form, but to me, she's like a dumb black lab - sweet, lovin', and not a lot upstairs.

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Originally Posted by kzooherpetoculturist

melissa, i'd say racers and rat snakes are really not very closely related... Elaphe and Coluber have some pretty widely differing characteristics, both physically and behaviorly.

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Thanks. Somehow I was under the impression they could inter-breed, like donkeys and horses...?

I would say a taipan and a brown snake. No one picks them up... and they know why...

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Originally Posted by Friendsnotwar

my jcp used a sharpee and wrote out the cure for cancer on a rat, it was a shame for mankind, because he then ate the rat. very smart.

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Wow. Can he autograph a photo for me?

I would say the king cobra,...or almost any cobra, based on everything Ive heard or read.