Views on keeping more than one bp in an enclosure

[cinderbird]

Are you sure about this?

Snakes seen as cuddling are likely to be sharing a prime thermoregulation or hide spot.

I have yet to see a study or witness actual behavior in which this is a case of one snake "dominating" the other.

Seriously - I've seen this behavior off and on for years. My bt cribo pair does it and they've been together for years. They eat, shed, crap, and make whoopee just fine. I'm just wondering where someone saw two snakes coiling together and ASSumed that it was some sort of dominance display.

Again - if you can drudge up a study or something based in fact that proves that this is a dominance display, I'll cheerfully agree with you.

This is what I've heard it referred to as MANY times,especially on this forum (dominance) if it is actually competition (and i will do more research on that) I'll change it, for now I'll add to the canned reply. Thank you for the clarification.

She wrote a book on keeping ball pythons, she MUST know what she's talking about.....

There is always room for improvement.