Ball Python keeps staring blankly!!

[The_Godfather]

^^^ this. They are pretty dumb. Out of all the snakes I have only two that ever display anything that remotely resembles something other than instinct and even with these two it is very rare.

I've seen them display a large capacity for curiosity. And they learned fast. At one point I was fixing their cage so there was a very small high escape area. It took them a week to find it and exploit it for escape. After recapture the first thing they did was blatantly escape again in front of me.

I don't delude myself with anthropomorphic ideas but each is certainly unique and has personality.