do snakes move their eyes?

recently picked up cinder my blood.and one of the coolest things about him is his eye movement.which raised the question how many snakes can?i never noticed my balls moving their eyes and i cant get much info on google (big surprise).so anybody else have snakes that can?

Hi,

Ball pythons can move their eyes just fine - it's just tricky to see on the dark eyed morphs. :)


dr del

all snakes move their eyes, retics are really cool to watch

Yep, they move their eyes! Their eyecaps are analogous to our eyelids, just clear and sealed shut. They can move their eyes around behind them.

thanks for the replies guys

Most definitely!

I love watching my RTB's eyes move.

I can't tell if my ball does, but with my RTB, you can hold her head and tilt it around and her eye stays in the same position. It's pretty cool. I'm sure she can move it, but she's probably just focused on a part of the room.

They definately do. Real easy to see with our CB 'cuz he's the biggest.

All snakes move their eyes, they just have a clear scale that goes over their eye to protect it since they don't have eyelids.

The thing I love about Bloods is their eye movement, my Bloods move their eyes so much more than my other snakes do. They are VERY observative:O

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The thing I love about Bloods is their eye movement, my Bloods move their eyes so much more than my other snakes do. They are VERY observative:O

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I definitely enjoy watching my Borneo's eyes move. But if you look at him at the right angle, he looks incredibly cross eyed haha.

Dennis

Sure do. My Antaresia Childreni (Childrens python) has very bright yellow eyes with black slits. very easy to see her scanning around.

I love to watch their eyes move!

yes

of course they do

I watch my YBs eyes move, it looks kinda cool how I can see him just looking around at random stuff.

I love how much my Borneo's look around and move their eyes. Always looking at everything. My boa's do it too but not as much. The Ball's I hardly notice but they do sometimes. The Retics look around alot too.

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recently picked up cinder my blood.and one of the coolest things about him is his eye movement.which raised the question how many snakes can?i never noticed my balls moving their eyes and i cant get much info on google (big surprise).so anybody else have snakes that can?

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When I got my Blood python I noticed the pupil reaction. I never noticed that before. strange the things you learn along the way, yes?:snake:

I swear one of my corn snakes is a bit cross-eyed... she has those creepy red (albino) eyes already, and when she looks up at you they cross slightly. It's kinda goofy looking, but she's a cutie pie anyway. ;)

Btw, has anyone had a snake "stare you down" before? One of mine (can't remember who) did that recently, and it actually started to creep me out... looked like he/she was plotting something evil, LOL. :weirdface

tree pythons also got bright eye depending on color of the neo the yellow neos got yellow eyes and it is fun watching them watch you the red neos got red eyes and look neat when they turn to green and you got a set of blood red eyes watching you

I kind of have a story that goes along with this that actually happened tonight!!! lol It wasn't funny at the time. I walked by my bp habitat, and looked in there. My bp usually stays pretty tightly coiled in the area he mainly stays in. Anyway I walked by and say that his head and upper and lower neck were away from his body and his head was slightly cocked sideways. I thought he had died! I was freaking out and kind of tapped on the front and of course I couldn't see if his eyes were moving as he has dark eyes. As I started to open the top of his habitat he woke up! He was just asleep. I felt bad for waking him up. :weirdface:O