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Paper bag
So the BP I got almost 5 weeks ago is a strong feeder the odd part is even if he has eaten 30min ago. You can crumple up a paper bag next to his cage and he is right out of his hide moving his head up flicking his tongue. Is it normal for them to associate a noise with feeding time? He gets feed every 5 days.
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would this be a paper bag that maybe a feeder was in?
My pastel has an incredible feeding response. She can sense when I am thawing out feeders. As soon as you open her tank she comes barreling out like my retic lol.
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Do you feed him in a paper bag? If he's that strong of a feeder, you probably don't need the paper bag anymore.
It could just be seeing you. I've got quite a few snakes that will come up and investigate the front of their tub if they see me near by thinking that they're going to be fed.
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No any paper bag its crazy. What lead me to notice was I got another temp unit the other night and pulling it out of the paper bag the BP came out looking for food after about 5 min of it looking at me it went back in so I crumpled up the bag once more and in a flash it was back out.
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Re: Paper bag
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Originally Posted by MarkS
Do you feed him in a paper bag?.
No:confusd: its a bag the feeder are in. Do people actually feed in a bag or you just messing with me:rofl:
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My normal girl Eva will only come out to eat if she hears the hair dryer going. If I don't use it and heat up the rat with a heat lamp she won't eat lol. It's crazy. So now my two snakes have associated the hair dryer with food time. :)
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So your hair looks like this :rolleye2:
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Originally Posted by fishdip
No:confusd: its a bag the feeder are in. Do people actually feed in a bag or you just messing with me:rofl:
Ha, No it's actually a tried and true method of getting tough feeders to eat. Close them up inside a paper bag with a thawed mouse/rat overnight and the darkness and security of the bag, can get them in a feeding mood.
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Snakes don't have external ears, they pick up vibrations from their environments that triggers their inner ears whether its in the air or on the ground, and are extremely sensitive. You crumpling a bag is triggering your buddy to come out and say "Whats up......FOOD?", is either because it can see you, or very faintly your snake picked up the vibrations thinking the bag is some rodent/food, or there is some kind of a tasty scent on the bag (you can actually smell a paper bag). Try out this link.... it's pretty interesting.
http://www.anapsid.org/reptilehearing.html
I did some research on this when I noticed Nova, my little girl kept ducking (like a bullet) into her hide when ever my wife spoke and came out again when my wife quit speaking ..... for awhile I kept teasing my wife that she smelt bad and my snake didn't like it :D. .... In the doghouse I went...lol.
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So my question after reading that article is: do ball pythons have the brain capability to recognize their names?
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But they can feel the vibrations in the air from speaking. I have heard a few people say they believe speaking to their snakes 'calms' them. I would think that, over time, the snake would become used to the sound of your voice and not be intimidated or threatened by it, thus seeming to calm it.
That being said... I talk to my snakes like their babies. I get made fun of by my partner ;) who hears me cooing and calling the snakes in high-pitched voices.
Don't hate.
I also strongly believe that snakes can recognize different people - either by scent, vision, or otherwise. My corn snake, whom I worked a lot with over the summer to handle, definitely prefers me to my partner. If I walk in the room, she doesn't hide when she's out. When my partner comes in, even alone (so there aren't two people around her) she hides instantly. We did a little test a few days ago with this as well. Just yesterday, I put my hand out to the glass and she came right up to it. My partner tried and she backed away. Again, I put my hand out and here she comes!
My partner is only an inch taller than me, and about 15-20lbs heavier (not noticably so) so I doubt his stature is what makes her nervous.
Just some 'food for thought'!
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I agree that they do recognize their surroundings and can recognize individuals and can learn simple routines. I used to keep a number of snakes in our laundry room. When my wife was in there doing the laundry, they would totally ignore her when she walked by their cages. However when I was in the room, they immediatly came out of their hides and pressed their noses up against the insides of their cages looking out at me. Why? It's not because they have any particular affection towards me, they didn't want to come out and play with me, they weren't looking up to me as their master. They simply learned to associate that 'MarkS shaped human being walking by' with getting fed. I do take my snakes out to play with them and handle them and occasionally I do talk to them as well, but that's more for my benefit then it is for theirs. I think that with the execption of being fed, they'd just as soon be left alone.
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