Quote Originally Posted by patientz3ro View Post
Again, you're completely missing the point. You're also contradicting yourself, yet again. And trust me, it's going to take someone much more intelligent than you to make me look stupid. I'll attempt to dumb this down so you don't need an 8 year old to explain it. I understand very well how snakes hunt. With the exception of your eyeless snake, vision IS part of the arsenal. For the sake of education, you should know that taste is also a factor. You know, the Jacobson's organ. Interestingly enough, not all of the triggers need to be present to induce a strike. Nor will the combination of heat, scent, taste, and sight guarantee a strike. Nearly all of us can relate seeing a snake take a prey item without striking. There's a lot of variables that can go into it.

FYI, I've recorded exactly what you said, and posted it here. The fact is, as you said yourself, they can learn to recognize scents. They can recognize the scent of food, and of things that aren't food. It's not rocket science. I'm not saying it's instantaneous, or that you won't get tagged in the process. I'm just saying it can be done.

There's a lot about animal behavior in general, and BP behavior specifically that you don't know anything about. Since you clearly can't accept the fact that you're not as all knowing as you'd like to think, there's no point in wasting my time pointing you in the right direction. No one is saying these snakes are going to be winning any reasoning contests anytime soon, but continuing to regard them as unintelligent and incapable of doing anything more than eating and sleeping is just ignorant.

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I never claimed to know it all. The fact is when you have a rat on your hand it masks the scent. Like when you get a snake that eats frogs, and you have to scent pinkies. They can see it's not a frog, but senses take over. That's what I've been saying the whole time.

My rufous beaked, they're diurnal and it was believed that they hunt mainly by vision. Now to dumb it down for you. The rufous beaked are the most hesitant snake to bite, and to contribute that they have 0 documented bites cases. So I wanted to test this theory and I laid a pinky flat in my hand. My little one gently ate off my hand while I held it. them it sniffed around and since my pinky smelled like food, he attempted to swallow my pinky. Now if you have anybody who has these snakes they will tell you they're never, ever aggressive. They also rely on vision more than balls because of the lack of heat pitts. So your ignorant argument is invalid. Even though a ball has smell, vision and heat pitts. They can still bite the hand because the hand smells like their normal pray. So again, before you open your mouth you should really learn everything. I never contradicted myself. I said they can't learn advanced stuff. Simple stuff yes. Sure they can differentiate food vs hand, but ask how many people have been bit by their bp who missed the rat they were holding. Learn kiddo, learn.