Huge enclosure set-up

[satomi325]

The short answer is we're not raising wild intelligent animals. They aren't exposed to it and forced to experience (however, don't throw a hatchling in a huge cage and expect it to work).

This goes back to a nature vs nurture effect, and I'm of the opinion that we've bred the nature out.

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I disagree
We haven't really bred the 'nature' out. Captive BPs are still quite the same as their wild counter parts. BPs are a docile species by nature, in general. They haven't been captive bred long enough to be drastically different from the wild ones other than the paint job. They aren't domesticated. Ball pythons aren't that intelligent to begin with, but the natural survival instincts are still there. If you left CB snakes out in the wild, I bet many of them could still survive. They're still the same genetically. A WC baby could be just as tame as a CB.
Our snakes aren't that much removed from the wild since imports and new mutations from the wild keep coming in and constantly bred into the the captive population.

I do agree, however, on that our captive animals do not experience or forced to live as they do in the wild.

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