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Tail Wagging during Feeding
I was feeding all the snakes tonight and I had already fed Juji, my pinstripe female a mouse and was offering her a 2nd when she began wagging her tail at me. This wasn't just a sort of swipe to the side. It was an obvious wag back and forth. Almost like a dog.
Is it just that she wants the mouse, wants me to leave her alone, or is it something else?
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Re: Tail Wagging during Feeding
Here's a video of an angolan python doing the tail-wag during her hunt...
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ing-quot-video...
No idea what it indicates...if anything. But it seems cool to witness!
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That is SO cool! Was that a BP?
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Re: Tail Wagging during Feeding
 Originally Posted by thedarkwolf25
That is SO cool! Was that a BP?
In the video? No, that was an Angolan Python. They look kind of similar, but it is an entirely different species.
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Re: Tail Wagging during Feeding
 Originally Posted by JLC
In the video? No, that was an Angolan Python. They look kind of similar, but it is an entirely different species.
Ok, I thought that was a rather large BP and I don't know the morphs well so I wasn't sure. Thanks!
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Re: Tail Wagging during Feeding
it could be that its trying to lure the mouse to her.in mouse brain its saying " hey what that moving "
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Re: Tail Wagging during Feeding
She thinks she is a rattler. Just kidding, I have no idea what the cause is but it is cool.
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Re: Tail Wagging during Feeding
That was cool!!!
Nibbles vibrates her tail like a rattler when she is mad (just when I am around)
I laugh because all I can imagine is the tv commercial, I think its for car insurance, that has the rattle snake with the baby rattle tied to its tail LOL
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Re: Tail Wagging during Feeding
 Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl
That was cool!!!
Nibbles vibrates her tail like a rattler when she is mad (just when I am around)
I laugh because all I can imagine is the tv commercial, I think its for car insurance, that has the rattle snake with the baby rattle tied to its tail LOL
I love that commercial lol!
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That angolan is my baby 
I don't think she is trying to entice the rat with that movement. Its not a "luring" type of motion, its actually quite deliberate and almost violent. It reminds me most of what cats do when they hunt, their tail swishing back and forth !
I think its the excitement ? Perhaps meant to "distract" the rat from the head of the snake ? LOL
I dunno, but its funny to watch
Zina
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