Do snakes feel emotions and/or love?

[ChristinaP]

they feel secure or insecure and hunger....

Nothing more nothing less...

It is that simple...

Mike

I agree! I also think they pick emotions from their "humans" and that can make them feel "fear" which I'm going to say is along the lines of insecurity

[stormwulf133]

Bottom line, in my opinion, is no one can ever answer this. You can never know what is in the brain of a creature you cannot communicate with. That simple. Their thoughts are alien to us, do they feel something that equates to love? We will never know. You can claim yes or no all you want.

[azpythons]

Bottom line, in my opinion, is no one can ever answer this. You can never know what is in the brain of a creature you cannot communicate with. That simple. Their thoughts are alien to us, do they feel something that equates to love? We will never know. You can claim yes or no all you want.

exactly.

[TheVipersHouse]

a snake has no feelings of love or anyting to that nature .
their short term memory is so short ,that once it gets your scent from being held and you put it back into its cage , it will forget who you are.

thats why there truly no such thing as a TAME snake .

only thing you can do to a snake is get it used to being handled ,by constanlty holding it so the movement doesnt panic it anymore and that reduces the chances of getting bitten ..

thats about it .

no emotions , no love , no such thing as a TAME snake ....

[Darkice]

My yellowbelly feels Pissed off all the time. Is that an emotion?

[wilomn]

a snake has no feelings of love or anyting to that nature .
their short term memory is so short ,that once it gets your scent from being held and you put it back into its cage , it will forget who you are.

thats why there truly no such thing as a TAME snake .

only thing you can do to a snake is get it used to being handled ,by constanlty holding it so the movement doesnt panic it anymore and that reduces the chances of getting bitten ..

thats about it .

no emotions , no love , no such thing as a TAME snake ....

Like the sun on a cloudless Summer day, your brilliance continues to preceed you wherever you go.

[JeffJ]

a snake has no feelings of love or anyting to that nature .
their short term memory is so short ,that once it gets your scent from being held and you put it back into its cage , it will forget who you are.

thats why there truly no such thing as a TAME snake .

only thing you can do to a snake is get it used to being handled ,by constanlty holding it so the movement doesnt panic it anymore and that reduces the chances of getting bitten ..

thats about it .

no emotions , no love , no such thing as a TAME snake ....

if this were entirely true. then the BP would be unable to imprint on a food item. as it would not remember it.

and we all know that they can and will imprint on a particular prey item. Would require some form of memory one would think.

[TheVipersHouse]

if this were entirely true. then the BP would be unable to imprint on a food item. as it would not remember it.

and we all know that they can and will imprint on a particular prey item. Would require some form of memory one would think.

Your confusing Memory Imprinting with Natural Instinct of survival.

Memory Imprinting is something learned
Instinct in inherited through genetics

[JeffJ]

Your confusing Memory Imprinting with Natural Instinct of survival.

Memory Imprinting is something learned
Instinct in inherited through genetics

instinct wouldn't be something that would cause a food item imprint. Eat or die is an instinct. they can imprint on things that do not even exist in there natural habitat. so in this case i do not agree

[Spaniard]

I think a big problem when it comes to this debate is the fact that humans do not readily rely on their instincts anymore. We have become rational creatures with a brain that processes and takes into account many different pieces of information before coming to a decision. I firmly believe that snakes are instinctual creatures.

Instincts are an involuntary response to a stimuli. The smell of a rodent triggers the instinctual feed response. A large heat signature and unknown scent triggers a defensive instinctual response, hissing and/or balling up.

On the outside looking in we as humans need to associate one of our rationals or emotions to a purely instinctual response. Humans feel the need to explain things, they cannot just accept them as they are. My two cents...