crotalusadamanteus
Brother Infidel
I'm talking about reactions.
In my 38 years of keeping Boa Constrictor, I have witnessed Boas react to numerous things. I have been bitten many times from someone walking by me too fast while I was handling (movement/sights). I have been bitten a few times because I wanted to handle a Boa while the neighbors were thumping their loud bass rap BS, and it evidently upset the Boa (sounds/vibrations). I have been bitten many times while handling because I forgot to wash properly after handling rodents, cats, birds, ect (scents).
On the subject of scents, I find it incredible that I can have all Boas asleep in their cages, in their hides, and I can put some rats in the bathtub to thaw out, close the door to the bathroom, and walk into the living room, and see every one of them with their heads poking out of the hide, muscles tensed up, reacting to movement, ready to be fed.
Well, over the last year, I have experienced a new encounter with acute consistency. My weekend routine consists of frying up some potatoes jalapenos and onions, then tossing in some eggs and scrambling it up for breakfast. And every weekend that I do this, my TH Lipstick Jungleglow Tarzan, decides I must be preparing food for him. By the time the potatoes smell starts filling the air, he's out of his hide and waiting. As soon as I walk back into the living room...BAM, he hits the glass reacting to the movement and smell in the air. This will continue each time I walk by until the smell has dissipated.
I don't have a clue what it is he's thinking, but it sure is the strangest thing I've ever witnessed. And it made me curious...what are your experiences, or strange behaviors that you've witnessed?
In my 38 years of keeping Boa Constrictor, I have witnessed Boas react to numerous things. I have been bitten many times from someone walking by me too fast while I was handling (movement/sights). I have been bitten a few times because I wanted to handle a Boa while the neighbors were thumping their loud bass rap BS, and it evidently upset the Boa (sounds/vibrations). I have been bitten many times while handling because I forgot to wash properly after handling rodents, cats, birds, ect (scents).
On the subject of scents, I find it incredible that I can have all Boas asleep in their cages, in their hides, and I can put some rats in the bathtub to thaw out, close the door to the bathroom, and walk into the living room, and see every one of them with their heads poking out of the hide, muscles tensed up, reacting to movement, ready to be fed.
Well, over the last year, I have experienced a new encounter with acute consistency. My weekend routine consists of frying up some potatoes jalapenos and onions, then tossing in some eggs and scrambling it up for breakfast. And every weekend that I do this, my TH Lipstick Jungleglow Tarzan, decides I must be preparing food for him. By the time the potatoes smell starts filling the air, he's out of his hide and waiting. As soon as I walk back into the living room...BAM, he hits the glass reacting to the movement and smell in the air. This will continue each time I walk by until the smell has dissipated.
I don't have a clue what it is he's thinking, but it sure is the strangest thing I've ever witnessed. And it made me curious...what are your experiences, or strange behaviors that you've witnessed?
