Quote Originally Posted by heatherhead42
GA_Ball_Pythons--does that mean that if they're in a dark room (such as one perhaps designed specifically to house reptiles, maybe a large warm closet) without regular light cycles natural or otherwise, they *won't* know? It was my understanding that they would even without natural light cues, but I could be wrong.

Interesting about storms and such--I'll have to look for that.

Also interesting, even if they wouldn't be able to tell in a dark room, that they can tell despite lights being on. My mice won't get really active until it's good and dark in their room, no matter how late I might be working in that room with the lights on. But that's not true for pythons, then. Very interesting.

Thanks. I wonder if any research has been done on this? Are they taking their cue from something other than light? What are they sensing? They are such fascinating creatures!

Heather
Not sure if researches have been done or not ,I know that mine will get out of their hides when the sun goes down, however if I go in the snake room and turn the light on for a long period of time they will go right back in their hides until I turn the light off again.