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constricting?

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darkpbstar

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is there a certain reason snakes constrict? like or are more aggressive at certain times of the year or something? the reason I as is because my snakes never have constricted before, I feed frozen anyway, so no need to, but, just lately, both have been striking and wrapping and holding the mice for like 5 minutes, it looks really cool, seeing them coil their prey, but I was curious as to why they do this? I'm not even holidng on to the mice and pulling, I do hand feed, but I just hold hte mouse till the snake strikes it, then let go. One more thing which is why I htink the case is, I've been feeding them both fuzzys now. I just bumped them both up to the fuzzys, maybe this is why, their prey is bigger and maybe seems more intimidating????
 
I noticed that when I sized up the prey too. Every once in a while the older corns do it. I like to think that they are just livening up meal time, though it's probably something completely different.
 
Age of the snake has a lot to do with it

My experience has been that older colubrids are much more likely to constrict their prey, regardless of whether it is live or f/t.
 
maybe they both just grew up some? I dont know, all I konw is that it is a really cool site, and it does liven up meal time.
 
constrictors

Corn snakes are constrictors. If your snake was in the wild, he would be capturing live mice and he would have to coil and constrict them to death before eating them. Being fed a diet of small frozen mice over time IMO, snakes may learn that the snapping and coiling behavior is not necessary to eat the mouse. Baby mice dont struggle as much so they dont need to be strangled but older live mice would be hard to get down if they were struggling. WHen feeding adult mice.. prekilled is safer for your snake as the mouse may do some damage. Thats just what I have observed.
 
HAH! my older one has been doing it too lately. she never used to. but now when she eats she will curl all the way around it. It seems like she does it more for protection though (as in, don't touch my food) then anything else because the pinkies are much bigger now and it takes her a long while to eat them.
 
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