Of all the snakes I've owned or known very well (pets of friends), my Tanimbar scrub is just next level. I've had a Ball Python, BCI, Burmese, and now a Dumeril's and they are all simpletons compared to this guy! He's super intelligent, super fast, and super fierce. Everything is on his terms. He comes out to play when he feels like it and gets put away when he feels like it. Metaphorically and physically speaking, he can't be forced to go anywhere; he must be led. He watches and learns like no other snake I've encountered. He also hunts like a demon hell-beast! My BP could barely catch a mouse that you dangled on top of his nose. My Dumeril's would rather hide from her food or sleep on top of it. Apophis once slithered out of my hands, down my leg, up the bed post, across the bed, and to the top of his enclosure to snatch a mouse that was thawing by his heat lamp STILL IN THE PLASTIC BAG! Another time, I was thawing dinner on top of his cage and he kept reaching up to put his nose by it, then stretching out to me and opening his mouth. Then back up to the mouse. Back at me. Open and close mouth. As if to say, "Mommy, that's mine!!!!"
Definitely not a pet for everyone, but super feisty and super fun.
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