The brighter the meaner

[Polyangler]

Something I noticed 20+ years ago was light morphs like albinos or pied for instance were typically more aggressive. This makes sense because in the wild they would stand out and need to be more cantankerous to survive even a short life. Have you noticed if this still holds true, or has our selective breeding over generations of captive critters removed a lot of this behavior?

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[OhhWatALoser]

The more animals I interact with, the more I feel the morph has almost nothing to do with personality.

[Mr. Misha]

In my case it's the other way around.

I do have a theory that females tend to be more "agressive" (more like stronger feeders) because of their instincts to breed.

All my boys (high white Pied, Albino and Bee) are absolute sweethearts. Never even had to be cautious with them unlike my females.

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[MarkS]

I do believe that attitude and personality are inherited traits but I don't think any particular morph has anything to do with it.

[bproffer]

My little GHI Mojave puts on a good show when we try to handle her. She is all bark (hiss) and no bite so far though (knock on wood). My leopard jigsaw is as calm as could be, which is funny because when I first saw him on a video Mike (Bigfish1975) posted on YouTube, he struck at him, and when I bought him, I was told he was a bit feisty.

[hazzaram]

I have an albino male and he's very calm! He's the one I introduce to people that are unsure of snakes. He was my first snake and I'm really glad for that.

[StupidZombie]

My cinnamon female was a total turd. She struck ay anything and everything for no reason. She was just a crazy little girl.
My butter was "evil" too he hated anything coming towards him and struck every chance he got, he tagged me once and i laughed at him as he pouted when it didnt effect me or scare me and i still took him out to clean his tub.

Now the only feisty ones i have are my carpet python hatchling and my champagne female, who hisses and has struck but never tagged me. My pastel tb male hisses but hides, my lesser male used to strike but hes settled a bit and seems calmer now.

Everyone else is a dream to work with.

[Smitty33]

I almost made a post the other day about the temperament difference between males and females. My male is very shy, has never hissed or struck but is very timid. He handles fine but just has always seemed abit of a scaredy cat. My daughters female mojove hatchling after her initial week of settling in seems almost fearless. She's not "mean" by any means, she never struck but has hissed once but she just doesn't seem scared at all. Doesn't ball up when you pick her up and eats like a champ.

[blbsnakes]

To the OP, I currently have 30 snakes of the holdback or adult variety. I hatch an additional few dozen a year. I have ball pythons, corn snakes, Kenyan sand boas and western Hognoses. I have been keeping reptiles for 8 years. So not a huge collection and I have not been doing this for a terribly long time. However, I can say with confidence that among my collection the color of the animal and its attitude have exactly 0 correlation.

[Polyangler]

To the OP, I currently have 30 snakes of the holdback or adult variety. I hatch an additional few dozen a year. I have ball pythons, corn snakes, Kenyan sand boas and western Hognoses. I have been keeping reptiles for 8 years. So not a huge collection and I have not been doing this for a terribly long time. However, I can say with confidence that among my collection the color of the animal and its attitude have exactly 0 correlation.

Good to hear all the input about color/attitude. There definitely seemed to be more to this back when collecting in my teens and early 20's. Wasn't talking just BPs either. I meant snakes across the board.

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