Sounds pretty obvious NOW that it’s a mixture of him being hungry ( maybe starving) and you having a the smell of other snakes on your hands ..
I was photographing all my snakes a few years ago .. my son was visiting and he had a decent camera and setup .
Anyways after doing all the bigger snakes we came to my lovely, calm and placid Florida King ... within 20 seconds of him being out he was lashing and thrashing all over the place !!
All because the camera table has the smells of about 18 different snakes ( and about 10 different species)
It was scary .. I remember screaming like a girl as he kept lunging at me
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