So just how smart are snakes?

[pinkspore]

So my snake bit me and I immediately pulled my hands out of the cage and left him alone. I know a bit about animal behavior, and now I'm wondering:

Are snakes smart enough to make the gigantic leap of logic to bite=left alone?

[4theSNAKElady]

yep.....at least, IMHO.

[SPJ]

Oh yeah.


Get a retic if you want to see a smart snake. I swear they THINK.

[basuca]

I think the same thing! from expiriance I know that animals such has cat, dogs, horeses and snakes that they think and make deseions(sp?)

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

I know they are smart!! I know after I get done doing the dead rat dance for Ruby she goes back in her hide and says to herself "I love it when he does that!!" lmao

[4theSNAKElady]

many colubrids will learn that they get put back in thier enclosure if they poop on you, so bing, they poop everytime you pick em' up. I hear that if your snake does this, you should NOT put them back in the cage to break them of the habit.

[daniel1983]

Most snakes will also 'learn' where the flaws are at in their enclosures. If your snake finds a way out....it will find the same way out again when put back into the enclosure....but this time it will usually be alot quicker than the first time

It all goes back to the way they must 'learn' in nature. I have seen speckled kingsnakes in piles of junk that would seem to be monsterous mazes..yet they do not 'get lost'....and they will find the quickest escape route to the side of the pile that you are not standing on....I think that takes some form of intelligence...or at least a great memory

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

Heres a great article I saw a while back
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=1514

[RWillinnable]

Snakes have been around for 80 million years. They must be doing something right.

Rachel

[Shadrach]

Not only learn but some snakes can Identify between humans. Ask my wife and the Retic that took a stab at her. Long story short it was my retic and visitors wanted to see him. When being handled I saw signs of stress heavy breathing and flightyness so I put him up. Five min later I heard my wife say "ouch he bit me!" I went straight to the cage and picked him up and he chilled out right then and there.