Snake Activity and Frequency of Handling

[mackynz]

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I felt that she "loved" to be out, exploring. But, what I've learned since then is that she "Tolerated" being touched, and she was more than likely climbing and exploring in order to find a safer place to hide. Snakes are reptiles, and their brains are not capable of emotions the way you are mentioning above.

100% this.

It's like when people claim their bp loves swimming in the bathtub, when it's much more likely that their bp just enjoys not drowning in the bathtub.

The reptilian brain flat out does not have the structures that we attribute many of our emotions to. If you're seeing anything other than fear, anger, hunger or desire to mate then you're anthropomorphizing. He is active at night because he's nocturnal, he likes hanging on to your neck becaue that's better than falling on the ground. As much as we would love to think that Mr. Snakey loves to see us when we take him out it's just not the case. They would much rather that the giant predator thing stops taking them out of their house.

Bp's are shy by nature, look at how they got their name. Them hanging out and not moving much doesn't mean they like being around us, it's more likely because please don't eat me Mr. Giant man sir.