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- From: kyle@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Kyle Wohlmut)
- Subject: Re: Gratuitous Kills
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.171148.9603@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
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- Summary: Seeing you in action is a joke.
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- Sender: kyle@csli.stanford.edu (Kyle "More Nougat" Wohlmut)
- Organization: Rocking Pig Enterprises
- References: <=xfrb1#@lynx.unm.edu> <s0499528.48.0@let.rug.nl> <Bzq0L8.60I@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:11:48 GMT
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- In article <Bzq0L8.60I@news.iastate.edu> pholland@iastate.edu (Paul
- "BANG! Freeze!" Hollander) writes:
-
- >I don't know why, but I saw the same thing in my first Burmese python, a
- >rather picky feeder. Give him a black rat, a hooded rat, and a white rat,
- >and he'd take the black first, the hooded next, and then think about the
- >white. I can't see smell having anything to do with it, as they were out of
- >the same colony. I wonder if the snake would still differentiate between
- >mice of different colors if the mice were dead and it was fed in a totally
- >dark box. Experiment.
-
- Well y'know, my own Burmese exhibits pretty much the same behaviour--
- not that she'd ever refuse food, but it takes her much longer to bag a
- pure white meal than any other. (It was true with rats, and now it's
- true with rabbits.) In our case, anyway, I'm pretty sure it's because
- white rabbits are rather hard to see against the white newspaper
- floor, and against the white wall behind the glass cage. She really
- has to be right up at the (white) rabbit, and then wait for it to move
- a little, before she will go for it, whereas she will bag a
- brown/black/spotted one almost before it's even left my hands
- (thankfully, -almost-). By the way, Paul, you don't actually feed
- multiple prey items at the same time, do you?
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