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My snake is a racist

Double het

Double het

If i'm gonna eat somebody
Yesterday i gave her 2 mice. A black and a white one. When i went to check to see if she ate she dragged or pushed the mouse to the other side of the container :shrugs:

Put the black mouse back near the white mouse. This morning i checked and only the white mouse was gone. That got me thinking she never actually ate a black one. Always just the white... There from the same bag, same breeder.

Just a funny story i guess. They do seem to distinct prey colors.
 
Heheh, my friend has a boa like that. It is a strange thing, discrimination of prey color. Then again, I know I wouldn't want to touch a blue chicken either...
 
I have an emoryi that demanded live as a juvie, but he didn't like white mice. I started feeding him in the dark, and that problem was solved. :)
 
Okay so admit it....who else thought that the snake freaked out when a black person held it? You know I did! ha! I mean some dogs do that.
 
Maybe I'm being too PC, but a snake discriminating between prey colour being linked to racism didn't rock my socks off. :shrugs:
 
I'm happy to say that my snakes are all equal opportunity eaters. Who would have thought you could buy politically correct snakes?
 
diamondlil said:
Maybe I'm being too PC, but a snake discriminating between prey colour being linked to racism didn't rock my socks off. :shrugs:
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I agree with you Janine! I find the statement a bit off-colour too. :uhoh:

That aside, My big boy refused to eat white mice when I got him. I fed him brown or black mice and then started feeding him mice that were black/brown and white and then slowly got him to eat white mice. Now he'll eat any coloured mouse, but he still refuses to eat rats! lol
 
All 3 of my BP's will not eat black mice at all. They would rather starve then eat them. Also my adult corn does not like women. I dont think its anything to do with being sexist but more to do with it does not like perfume lol.
 
I think animals absolutely can discriminate by color and or pattern like that.

Had a shepherd when I was 8 or 9 that needed surgery to repair a bad hip displasia problem and our vet clinic was a 'two vet' team that always dressed exactly alike (like it was a uniform). From then on, every time she saw two people dressed exactly alike, she went nuts. Priests, cops, boy scouts... didn't matter. Seperate them, and she was great with them individually, but put them back together, and it was Kujo all over again. Makes me wonder what they did to her...
 
Long as my snakes don't start busting out racial slurs I'm good.

And I figure that being a snake means you'd slur your words a lot, anyway. ;)
 
MerlinsPop said:
I think animals absolutely can discriminate by color and or pattern like that.

Had a shepherd when I was 8 or 9 that needed surgery to repair a bad hip displasia problem and our vet clinic was a 'two vet' team that always dressed exactly alike (like it was a uniform). From then on, every time she saw two people dressed exactly alike, she went nuts. Priests, cops, boy scouts... didn't matter. Seperate them, and she was great with them individually, but put them back together, and it was Kujo all over again. Makes me wonder what they did to her...
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years ago we had a shepherd mix and we got her while we lived in our home state of Pa in a very white area. Then I went back to college, but did so down in Ga. The first time my dog saw a black individual, she went nuts and you would have thought I had Cujo on my hands. We didn't put 2 and 2 together until it happened a couple of times. Then everytime she saw someone who was black, she became vicious. It was sort of embarassing because we had black friends and they just thought the dog was aggressive and would ask why she acted that like.....which brought on the the looking at ceiling, floor, walls, anything other then look them in the eyes. "ummm....welll....not sure why she does that sometimes. She just doesn't seem to like new people." We usually could work around it and keep her penned in the bedroom when we have people over who didn't meet her racist little attitude of acceptance, but when the cop pulled us over in North Carolina and I saw him walking up to the car. I said, "honey grab the dog." Then I hopped out of the car and met him outside of it, which propmted him to draw his weapon, to which I had to explain a little about the dog. I loved that dog, but it certainly was a relief in that way when it died.

It must be the way the precieve color that either they can't see it quite right and therefore are suspicious of the prey items (back to talking about snakes here).
 
Originally Posted by MerlinsPop
I think animals absolutely can discriminate by color and or pattern like that.

Had a shepherd when I was 8 or 9 that needed surgery to repair a bad hip displasia problem and our vet clinic was a 'two vet' team that always dressed exactly alike (like it was a uniform). From then on, every time she saw two people dressed exactly alike, she went nuts. Priests, cops, boy scouts... didn't matter. Seperate them, and she was great with them individually, but put them back together, and it was Kujo all over again. Makes me wonder what they did to her...
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I dont think theres any debating that animals recognise colour or they'd be very little point to animals evolving warning colouration to keep predators at bay

and the development of mimicry strategies where a non venomous animal mimics a venomous one so it may be associated with the potential dangerous defensive mechanism
 
can't remember where i heard this but supposedly some Ball/Royal Pythons are more likely to prefer dark coloured mice as there aren't any/or very few species of light colourte mice in Africa... could be complete rubbish though hehe:spinner:
 
Double het said:
Put the black mouse back near the white mouse. This morning i checked and only the white mouse was gone. That got me thinking she never actually ate a black one. Always just the white... There from the same bag, same breeder.
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It has nothing to do with "Racism", It all comes down to prey recognition. If the snake does not recognize the item as food it won't eat it. You answered the question yourself............
Double het said:
They do seem to distinct prey colors.
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Double het said:
Just a funny story i guess.
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I don't think this is very funny at all. I think the title and your post to be a little on the offensive side. Snakes have no understanding of being "Racist" whatsoever as it is truly a human concept. I find this post a little on the distasteful side. You could have titled this thread in a different way such as "Prey Recognition" or something like that. I really didn't find your statement funny at all. I have black relatives and I feel this post is a little on the offensive side. But looking at your track record on posting on this forum I guess you are par for the course. What I find as funny (not funny "HAHA", but funny "ODD") is how you continuously find the need to post things like this just to get a "Rise" out of the other members. No matter how you try to sugar coat or disguise your posts, for the most part, they are 100% meant to do so. Every post you make shows a little more of your true colors and who you are as a person. It is my opinion that the only racism in the content of this thread lies within you. I feel you are a very hurtful and hateful person as it shows more and more with every post you make.:confused::mad:
Jay
 
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I totally agree, which is why I said this thread didn't strike me as amusing at all. To equate prey-preference with racism just made me recoil in disgust rather than chuckle at what an astute, amusing observation it was
 
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