Baby tail wag to mouse?

[pastelballs]

Hey everyone. Today was feeding day for my little super pastel lesser girl and she gobbled down the first one no problem. She's fed live, brw, haven't yet switched to ft. The second one she was eager to chow, however when it touched near her tail, she wagged it! I thought it was insane, so quickly googled it. She correctly struck it and stopped the wag before I could record it. Google came up with things about courting and breeding, but this girl is only 95 grams and she definitely knew it was feeding time.
Explanation??

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[T_Sauer]

Freak incident

[DennisM]

Tail wagging is a sign of a defensive/nervous/agitated snake. I guess she didn't like her meal messing with her tail. No, your 95 gram female is not trying to attract boys!

[Reinz]

When I got my last Boa a beyond Colossal sized live rat came along with him.

When I put this monster rat in the cage the Boa was all coiled up. The rat started standing on the snake and the Boa wagged his tail, even on multiple passes as the rat walked by. The Boa looked just like a Rattlesnake with that tail wagging.

Biggest rat I ever saw. I tried feeding it to my female Boa and the rat was so big that this adult Boa could not get a jaw lock/bite hold on the body with four tries!

I killed the rat and then the female swallowed it away.

[pastelballs]

When I got my last Boa a beyond Colossal sized live rat came along with him.

When I put this monster rat in the cage the Boa was all coiled up. The rat started standing on the snake and the Boa wagged his tail, even on multiple passes as the rat walked by. The Boa looked just like a Rattlesnake with that tail wagging.

Biggest rat I ever saw. I tried feeding it to my female Boa and the rat was so big that this adult Boa could not get a jaw lock/bite hold on the body with four tries!

I killed the rat and then the female swallowed it away.

Interesting! The little mouse was a step up from what I normally feed her, but it definitely wasn't too huge for her... She wasn't coiled up, and was inching forward in strike position. She had to strike it a few times, but I think that's just because her jaw wasn't 100% aligned... I wonder if she was intimidated by it, but still hungry/wanting to eat it?
My other balls will sometimes hide their faces in coils when they don't want to eat, I've seen it with both live and f/t, but this feisty little one wasn't seemingly scared at all, if anything excited and amped to take another.

[ItsAllNew2Me!]

I have had my cornsnake do this when he was younger when i first got him. I also looked this up and many species of snake even non venomous will use their tail to vibrate and make noise warning a potential predator that they are willing to attack (scared s***less is more like it ) This was a very novel learning experience for me as i thought only rattlesnakes did this.

[bks2100]

Yea my smallest girl just did that to me yesterday when I went to clean her tub. In her defense she was all curled up in her hide, so I just ripped the hide off and boom she's out in the open. She was more aggressive than any hatchling I've seen on youtube about aggressive ball pythons. Then she vibrated her tail and instead of it scaring me it just made me realize, "haha she's not dangerous at all".

[Coluber42]

I didn't know BP's would actually rattle their tails; I assumed it was just something that snakes that share a habitat with rattlesnakes do. If a little corn snake rattles its tail against the leaf litter, it does sound enough like a rattlesnake that if I were thinking of having corn snake for dinner, I'd probably think again.

[Ax01]

my baby corn does this all the time. she thinks she's a lil rattler.