Fun stuff for snakes?

[Caitlin]

Oh wow, that does sound fun! I bet Totoro would love that, he's such a curious, active little dude - well normally he is, right now he's in blue and all grumpy about it, lol. But he's generally very active and I think he'd appreciate being a snake-in-the-box. That would be a really fun thing to have my niece help me set up, too, she loves my snakes and we could probably even find a way to make it a science project for her schoolwork!

If your niece wants to do a science project, I'd suggest that the two of you watch some videos by Lori Torrini, who is my sensei as far as this enrichment stuff goes. I'll link her youtube channel below. Lori does training, behavioral modification, and enrichment with a large group of snakes - mostly pythons, but she also works with colubrids. If your niece needs a couple of formal scientific articles on food mazes and target training for snakes, let me know and I can link some. A simple target training study or an observational study of the snake's response to offering enrichment could work out well for a project.

I try not to dump an overwhelming amount of information on newcomers to enrichment, but I'll just say there's a whole world of research, info, videos, and even online classes.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...y=lori+torrini