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Are there any snakes that...
..don't carry out solitary lives in the wild, but live among each other (in close quarters)?
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
some people house carpets together year round....
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
Well, I wouldn't want to call Thamnophis social animals, but they do hibernate in groups of over 10K.
Same with rattlesnakes, kings, and other species, they hibernate in the same dens.
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
Do you mean can snakes be social? I don't personally think they can be labelled as social because that would require communication and social heirarchies that snakes do not exhibit, but I do believe that advanced keepers can successfully keep some species of snakes together.
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
i take it you mean like in the sense that swans mate for life or deer run in herds?
in this case, no... other than communal dens, which a lot of hibernating snakes use, i don't think there are any species along these lines... on an evolutionary scale, they just aren't that far along.
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
thanks for the info, interesting points. I didn't even think snakes would hibernate together..
0.1 CoastalxJungle Carpet Python
0.1 Blood Python
2.0 Western Hognose
0.1 African Bullfrog
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
Some species of snakes hibernate together, as they tolerate each other. I wouldn't technically call it social though. It just all depends on the species.
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1.0 - Naja siamensis - Zeus (Black & White Spitting Cobra)
1.0 - Naja n. woodi - Hades (Black Spitting Cobra)
0.1 - Naja nigricollis - Athena (Black-necked Spitting Cobra)
coming at some point in the future
Naja annulata (Ringed Water Cobra)
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
Originally Posted by zackw419
thanks for the info, interesting points. I didn't even think snakes would hibernate together..
oh man, you haven't lived till you've seen garters coming out of hibernation!
do you ever do any herping? around here you can go out in mid-april and if you know where to look or if you just get lucky you can find great masses of them coming out of the rocks.
Colin Vestrand
long time keeper and breeder of carpet pythons and other snakes...
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
ALthough corns aren't social snakes in the wild, people keep same sized ones together with little issue.
Just a thought.
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Re: Are there any snakes that...
Originally Posted by Colin Vestrand
oh man, you haven't lived till you've seen garters coming out of hibernation!
do you ever do any herping? around here you can go out in mid-april and if you know where to look or if you just get lucky you can find great masses of them coming out of the rocks.
Awesome, I have herped around since Costa Rica. I've been meaning to though. I promised myself I would find a rattlesnake. I've never seen one in the wild.
0.1 CoastalxJungle Carpet Python
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2.0 Western Hognose
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