Wants vs Needs

[Argentum]

My young female is very active and curious if I take her out and handle her... or at least, that's what it looks like. I'm pretty sure she's just curious where her houses went and wants to go back to them. She's one that just wants to move a few inches from warm to cool and back again, so she's in a dimly lit tub with hides directly facing each other. She comes out for a drink of water, but other than that... she even prefers to poop and shed inside her hides. Then she hangs out inside the opposite one until I clean it up so she can switch back and forth again. My male, however, is almost always hanging out where he has a view of what's going on outside the enclosure, or crammed in behind his warm hide. He doesn't want to come out of the enclosure or go into the hide, but he does want to see what's going on, it seems. He has an enclosure that's dark on the warm side, and light on the cool side, with a clear view to see out. His warm-side hide is weighted so he can feel secure squeezing in behind it and doesn't push it out of place. Simple concessions to what they like. I guess it is, indeed, like all other animals; No two want exactly the same thing, whether it's snakes, horses, birds, humans, fish, cats, dogs or rodents. I can't speak for badgers. Never had one. I've been told that a snake needs enough room to stretch out straight. I've never seen a live snake stretch itself out straight voluntarily, so I'm not sure about that.