Behavioural differences in morphs

[silverbill]

I've noticed some key differences in behaviour of my two snakes. I have one with normal/wild colouration. He acts very much how I'd expect a ball pyhon to act. He never leaves his hide during the day and only comes out at night. He has a good temperament but is rather headshy and will strIke out if I move too fast too close to him. During feeding, he'll coil his prey for a several minutes before deeming it ready to eat.

My other snake, a mojave bumblebee, is quite different. She has a hide but she seems content with either lying on top of it or outside or where ever she pleases. I can touch her anywhere, including on the head and she seems completely indifferent and has never tried to bite. When I feed her, she'll maybe lightly coil the prey for a few seconds and then decide "eh good enough" and start eating.

Anyone else notice that the normal/wild snakes seems to exhibit this more "primal" behaviour as compared to some morphs? I know for sure the spider gene can cause behavioural differences but I didn't realize it'd make them more "docile".

[OhhWatALoser]

Every snake has their own personality, for every story that wants to generalize a morphs behavior, someone else has a story that contradicts it. To each their own.

[ladywhipple02]

When I had a larger collection, I definitely noticed a difference in temperaments with my animals. I'm not sure it's morph related, because I've had normals that were sweet and curious as could be. My spider was sweet and gentle and my favorite because she never shied and always ate, and had an awesome overall personality. My pied was your "typical" ball python and never left her "ball" state. My black pastel was fiesty and would strike when I'd open his cage, but seemed to do it in an almost perfunctory way, as if to say this is my cage and you're NOT allowed in it! He was totally fine outside of it. My pinstripe was always out and about, and the most curious little thing. As soon as the top of his cage was open, he was on his way out to check out the world. I always had to be ready to grab him.

I think these animals have a great diversity in personality, and like I said, I'm not sure it's connected to their morphs in any way, but I don't have a large collection and never had.

[Seven-Thirty]

I would attribute it more to just personality differences but it is generally accepted that spiders do tend to eat better than most morphs. Each of my snakes are of varying morphs but all of them having different personalities ranging from the most docile thing ever to the most nippy thing ever.

[predatorkeeper87]

my Mojave spider strikes if you move too fast above him, my lemonblast looks terrified every time I touch her, and the pastel just doesn't care at all lol.