Tail Wagging during Feeding

[Jay_Bunny]

I was feeding all the snakes tonight and I had already fed Juji, my pinstripe female a mouse and was offering her a 2nd when she began wagging her tail at me. This wasn't just a sort of swipe to the side. It was an obvious wag back and forth. Almost like a dog.

Is it just that she wants the mouse, wants me to leave her alone, or is it something else?

[JLC]

Here's a video of an angolan python doing the tail-wag during her hunt...

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ing-quot-video...

No idea what it indicates...if anything. But it seems cool to witness!

[thedarkwolf25]

That is SO cool! Was that a BP?

[JLC]

That is SO cool! Was that a BP?

In the video? No, that was an Angolan Python. They look kind of similar, but it is an entirely different species.

[thedarkwolf25]

In the video? No, that was an Angolan Python. They look kind of similar, but it is an entirely different species.

Ok, I thought that was a rather large BP and I don't know the morphs well so I wasn't sure. Thanks!

[Orlandoflor]

it could be that its trying to lure the mouse to her.in mouse brain its saying " hey what that moving "

[TomC]

She thinks she is a rattler. Just kidding, I have no idea what the cause is but it is cool.

[PitOnTheProwl]

That was cool!!!
Nibbles vibrates her tail like a rattler when she is mad (just when I am around)

I laugh because all I can imagine is the tv commercial, I think its for car insurance, that has the rattle snake with the baby rattle tied to its tail LOL

[thedarkwolf25]

That was cool!!!
Nibbles vibrates her tail like a rattler when she is mad (just when I am around)

I laugh because all I can imagine is the tv commercial, I think its for car insurance, that has the rattle snake with the baby rattle tied to its tail LOL

I love that commercial lol!

[zina10]

That angolan is my baby

I don't think she is trying to entice the rat with that movement. Its not a "luring" type of motion, its actually quite deliberate and almost violent. It reminds me most of what cats do when they hunt, their tail swishing back and forth !

I think its the excitement ? Perhaps meant to "distract" the rat from the head of the snake ? LOL

I dunno, but its funny to watch