Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
Actually guys, a tad more attention to detail, or perhaps more clarity on my part, would clue you in to the fact that I'm not now inquiring about snakes and keeping them together, frankly, that's been beaten to death for now, but in this dominance/heirarchigal thing that has been mentioned.

I have seen it in lizards. I have seen it in tortoises. I have seen in birds. I have not seen it in snakes. This interests me.

It has been said in this very thread that it has been stated by "several breeders" that this occurs when snakes are housed together.

I'd like to discuss this. If it's true, I have learned a new thing. That would please me. If it's not true, how many of you are or were already, saying that it was without one single bit of evidence?

So, a couple of you spoke up about this. Please, share what you know, where it came from, and what methods the conclusion was reached by.

Thank you.
It would be great if there was some sort of experiment or study done to see if there was in fact dominance, but I am certainly not going to house my snakes together just to find out.

I am going to guess most people who have enough snakes to do this type of experiment wouldn't want to.

Just a few days ago there was a thread where someone was keeping two hatchlings together. One was eating perfectly fine, but the other had not taken a meal. He separated them and within 2 days the non-eater started eating again. To me this points to "dominance".

As for breeding, yes the smaller males can breed the larger female.