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Posted by Norman on February 09, 2002 at 19:26:36:
In Reply to: Re: here's why I have doubts about cb yearlings.... posted by dan felice on February 09, 2002 at 18:19:07:
Those study snakes represent a very small number and it is no proof they changed their "instinct", but the other word you used- they "adapt". I have heard from people I believe to be credible that Indigos learned to come up to their house just before the fields were plowed. That type of behavior would seem unbelievable to all but the dedicated fans of this particular forum who know firsthand that Indigos are simply capable of very "unsnakelike" behaviors. We all know these guys are smarter than science gives them credit for. All snakes show great ability to adapt to all sorts of challenges. Any learned behaviors of adaptations can just as easily be relearned or readapted. We are not talking about a dumb animal. I would imagine any snake that survives in the wild into adulthood becomes a far more experienced and cagey old veteran than one that spent its whole life in a simple box. There's probably no comparison. It would be hard to take an Indigo raised in a dark sweater box and turn it loose and think it's got much of a chance but one raised in a larger naturalistic setting, stimulated with some of the things it would be expected to encounter in the wild would probably do better in the long run than the wild born. I don't know the ratio of born to surviving adult in the wild but it's probably two hundred to one or something like that. The survival ratio of properly conditioned yearlings, I would think, would have to be way higher than that.
