everytime i take my ball python outside, and put him down on the grass, he lifts his head like a cobra. its really cool. why does he do this?? and right now for the first time i see him lifting his head like a cobra while being handled, and on top of all inside the house. and he did this while i had slipknot playing, and he like goes forwards and backwards with his head... looks as if he is enjoying it?
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Cool Ball Python mine preferred Jazz lol. he is lifting his head out of the grass so he can get a better range of smell. Since they use sent and infrared pockets to make a picture of there surrounding he was getting a better vantage point. he also could have been looking for food. Mine did the same thing I always thought it made her look tuff.
They are smelling and becoming aware of the surroundings maybe it is gettin used to you and enjoying it...they get more active when you do this. They also love to swim in some warm bath water in the tub
its marking its territory i think or smelling
I don't have a ball python but what you describing sounds pretty cool. The behaviour of snakes is so unique and interesting.
My red-tail boa does the same thing it's so kool to watch
We have an albino king who thinks he is a rattlesnake!! No idea what prompts this kind of behavior, but it not unusual.They do enjoy music, all of our ball pythons go cruising around their cages when we crank up the bass or during thunderstorms. They are responding to the vibrations.
I wish my Ball Python did that!! Maybe hes checking out the surroundings though... im gonna train my baby bearded dragon to dance to Metallica haha
oh you ball is so cool! mine sleeps all the time. but he did the cobra pose in his aquarium when he try to escape. let him do his cobra pose. i think he feel confidence with his surrounding as pointed out by previous post
The snake is lifting itself up so that it can get a good idea of what's going on in its surroundings; lifting up allows it to see over the grass and allows it to get a clearer 'picture' with the heat pits. It is probably also scenting the air.
As for doing it while slipknot was playing--snakes don't have ears. Lizards do (look at one; you'll see a little hole in the side of the head, but none in a snake) but snakes do not. Snakes cannot hear the way we do; he was likely responding to the vibrations the music caused in whatever surface he happened to be on and was trying to figure it out. As for going forwards and backwards with his head; if this is done while lifting up, and if he is a young snake, this is because he hasn't yet acquired the muscle tone and control needed to hold his head fully still while lifted; you see all of these behaviors in almost all ball pythons given the right stimuli.
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