My wife's first snake, Sidney

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Jarich

There's a difference between communal higher functioning mammals and a sendentary ambush predator snake mate....

Take for example Liasis olivaceus borroni (pilbara olive pythons). There have been field studies on individual animals amongst the rock formations in the pilbara which have found the same animal living in the same crevace for upto 6 months without moving. They find periods of activities for a few weeks a year for mating and feeding, but always at a minimal range of the rock crevices itself. It gets hungry tags a rock wallaby goes to sleep for 4 months, wakes up feels a bit frisky looks for a mate for a few weeks; tags another rock wallaby goes back to sleep again till the next cycle. So anthropomorphicly itr can be said the that pilbara olive python's year consist of 4 days... the week its hungry as one, the few weeks it's frisky as another day, and the months in between at rest at a day each. How much environment enrichment do you think it would need in captivity given it's extreme sendentary lifestyle in it's natural environment.

By all means if people want to keep their snakes in grand enclosures do so...... but let's not slam the people that keep them in tubs either.

We feed our captive snakes on set interval with predetermined food sizes of our choice.... what happens if we feed it a prey item five times the size of it's "regular" prey item? Do you think it will stay active in it's grand enclosure or do you think it will retreat in it's hide for a few months while it digest and not use the "environment enrichment"?