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Bobbing head?

jacki3x_04

jacki3x_04

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Okay the title may be misleading because I know snakes when they smell will bob their head but this is different. Anyway, I went to bath my normal corn snake (in shed) and I think I scared her. I went to pick her up and she was bobbing her head up and down. It was really odd. As I picked her up I noticed her throat was puffed up. So I put her on the ground and every time I touched her she did the weird head bobbing thing. After about 2 minutes she stopped and her throat was back to normal. At first I was afraid she has a respiratory issue. I haven't heard clicking, gurgling etc. Or bubbles & mucous, or any type of strange behavior. I have noticed this before when I went to pick her up in the past, but wasn't as long. Also she was in blue so i am figuring I woke her up/ scared her. Any opinions?
Thanks
-Jackie
 
Hello!

This observation I have made ​​already at once, when my young Amel Motley girl moved into a new enclosure.
She explored it slowly and deliberately, and as it hung in the plant (artificial Ivy), she just bobbed the head like yours.
She crawled slowly a piece, stuck, look out of the plant and the head and front body bobbed. And this one time after another, as long as she had explored the whole plant. It reminded me immediately of the camouflage of stick insects, this slow and gentle motion, as if they would only be moved by the wind ...
The whole body completely motionless, only the front body and the head moves like gently moved by the wind...

If you imagine a young corn snake in juvenile plumage in the light and dark patterns of a forest floor or in the bushes, where grass or branches are gently moved by the wind and where always new light patterns are exposed, this behavior makes perfect sense, since the young corn snake merge almost completely with the backround. It makes sense in the molting phase as well as in cautious exploration of a new habitat, where defensive camouflage is needed.
So i think it is nothing more than defensive camouflage.

Greetings, Andreas
 
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