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- From: kyle@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Kyle Wohlmut)
- Subject: Re: Gratuitous Kills
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.170436.9401@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
- Followup-To: rec.pets.herp
- Summary: My strength is much greater than yours.
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- Sender: kyle@csli.stanford.edu (Kyle "Think Global, Act Loco" Wohlmut)
- Organization: Rocking Pig Enterprises
- References: <=xfrb1#@lynx.unm.edu> <s0499528.48.0@let.rug.nl>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:04:36 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <s0499528.48.0@let.rug.nl> s0499528@let.rug.nl (R.
- "Amsterdamned" Dijkhuis) writes:
-
- >A friend of mine who has a rat snake has seen his snake do this. His
- >explanation, as I recall, was that the snake wasn't actually hungry, but
- >because the mouse was moving around the terrarium and got in the snake's
- >way, the snake killed it out of pure annoyance.
-
- I don't think I buy this explanation... most snakes, especially
- colubrids, may bite to defend themselves but would not go through the
- motions of a kill unless it was to eat. If not in food-mode, they
- would probably go into 'I-can't-see-you mode' rather than constrict.
- (Course, I don't have any hard data to back that up...)
-
- >
- >This snake also had this thing about white mice, BTW. He just didn't want to
- >eat them. Has anybody got any idea why?
- >
-
- Well, I can hardly say that I blame him... :-P
-
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