To me it's not much different than the way preschool functions for little kids: it offers exposure to new things, and it's those new things that make more brain
connections. While we assume reptile brains are vastly different from ours, I still think they operate along the same lines...the more varied their exposure, the
better the brain turns out, and the more resilient the owner. Also, snakes gain some muscle strength & coordination by crawling over things (or climbing, depend-
ing on the species)...a snake that just lays around on a flat smooth surface cannot possibly have the same physicality as one with options to explore, and I stronglysuspect their brain works better as a result.
Snakes that are suddenly taken out & go hide have not yet learned from the beginning that they can do this & survive...so of course they try to hide immediately.
That doesn't mean you should just quit trying to enrich their experiences, IMO. That's like handing a 4 year old a book, & because they can't read it, you take it
away & offer no further education...
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