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Can/Will females 'jerk' during breeding?


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Posted by woodheadd on April 29, 2003 at 08:07:13:

In Reply to: Can/Will females 'jerk' during breeding? posted by Mark Schmidtke on April 28, 2003 at 20:39:04:

:I've seen both males and females do this so It's not always a good indicator of gender. In my experience, when I've seen females do this, they weren't interested in breeding.

:Mark

::Has anyone experienced a female snake doing the herky jerky movements when in the presence of a male during breeding, or is

:it just the male who will do this little dance?

::D80

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:Yes both males and females will twitch,but when i have seen the females twitch they were ready to breed,its kind of a forplay thing...All animals have there breeding rituals they go through,its very normal in snakes to twitch



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