Agression In Snakes

[CoolioTiffany]

To think about it, there are no species of snakes (well, exclude venomous species, I'm talking about the colubrids, pythons, and boas) that are aggressive. When people say, "Yeah, these species of snakes can be quite aggressive.", it makes me think that really not all can be that way. For instance, take the JCP for example. Babies can be nippy, but some can be quite calm and tame. So, really, they aren't considered to be aggressive but some can be nippy, but not full on aggressive.

A snake can take some time to actually become 'aggressive'. Without handling, a snake would become nippy, and if you let that continue, the nippy snake would form into an aggressive snake because it had no human contact. Yeah, snakes can be nippy, just not coming out of an egg or of it's mother aggressive. A Ball python can be aggressive without human contact, just like any other snake that has not been in human contact. Blood pythons have been known to become very aggressive, but are also known to be total sweethearts when handled often. To me, handling avoids the snake becoming aggressive. So, even though a snake would be born or hatched nippy, it would only become aggressive if it has not come in human contact.