Okay, I know that tail wagging is normal when you pair up animals but has anyone seen it induced by feeding? Last night my 300g female went into crazy tail wagging when she locked onto the presence of her rat chub... Strangest thing to witness...

My pastel when he was little would do that when I put his food into his cage, he wanted to be a rattle snake so bad.

Haven't seen that in any of mine. That sounds pretty cool though.

It's the same thing as "spider wobble" just at the other end :devil:



OK just kidding about that.

Never experienced it

Hey a girl has to do what a girl has to do to eat right? :devil:

Sounds like she is a little food aggressive to me....

I've seen it a few times, when baby and norsmis could be onto something! Those times I've seen it, it has been displayed by an excellent feeder.

I have a corn that buzzes her tail the entire time she is eating so I am just going off this theory....

I have a corn that buzzes her tail the entire time she is eating so I am just going off this theory....

I have had a corn in my days and he would buzz his tail too but he would do it when he was pissed (trying to remove him from the cage when he did not want to be removed, coming too close while he was eating...) My GBK does this too. I think this is more a defense mechanism; a real case of pretend to be a rattler.

Those times I've seen it, it has been displayed by an excellent feeder.

She is most definitely an excellent feeder (funny considering she came to me as a live mouser who would not touch rats and yet took the first F/T rat I offered her.) That said, my male (that is just about the same size/age) is also an aggressive feeder and he does not wag...

I had a boa that would do it once in a while, I thought of it like using it's tail as a lure to entice prey into striking distance. Like the baby cottonmouths do with their yellow tipped tail. I've never noticed my balls do it yet though.

I have had a corn in my days and he would buzz his tail too but he would do it when he was pissed (trying to remove him from the cage when he did not want to be removed, coming too close while he was eating...) My GBK does this too. I think this is more a defense mechanism; a real case of pretend to be a rattler. Could be, but not in my case. The tail wagging was always displayed right after exiting the hide and up until the striking of the pray held by hemostats. The same animal doesn't do it anymore now that he's older. But he did do it 3 or 4 times when he was a younger. I thought it was pretty similar to the tail wagging in GTPs, not exactly the same obviously, but similar and with similar meaning.
She is most definitely an excellent feeder (funny considering she came to me as a live mouser who would not touch rats and yet took the first F/T rat I offered her.) That said, my male (that is just about the same size/age) is also an aggressive feeder and he does not wag... I didn't mean to say all excellent feeders will do this. Actually I hadn't even related being an excellent feeder with that type of tail display until norsmis suggested it. I just have one guy that displayed that behaviour when younger, that just happens to be an excellent feeder. Coincidence probably. Other good feeders don't tail wag at all.
Maybe he was just happy??? :lol:

I have 2 girls that do this... They are big girls and are great feeders. I thought it was like caudaluring, but didn't know for sure.....

Alan

I have to see that.

I honestly believe that the wagging is for the same as any other animal...It simply displays excitement.(sometimes good,sometimes bad.)

Ever seen a dogs tail go into action once they hear the can opener for their food?
Or how about a cat when something has just irritated them.
Hell even the fancy guppies i have (,in a 55/gal in my tv room) exhibit the behaviour when it's feeding time...Plus,the little males curve their bodies in front of the females,and actually vibrate their tails (,while fanned up like a peac0ckk does.) in order to attract the girlies. :D

It's the same thing as "spider wobble" just at the other end :devil:



OK just kidding about that.


"...you ain't right." :lol:






:D

My GTP does it to entice prey I think and the dumeril boa male will do it while under the bedding just the tail sticking out inches from his head wagging just above the surface...well used to I think he has learned I am his meal ticket and doesn't have to work as hard but I haven't seen a BP do it for food...

The kings and corns that do it only because they are evil and want to eat my hands...and they do more of a rattle leave me alone sort of wagging, I think you mean more of a slow deliberate look a worm kind of wagging.

Would be cool to see it in a video....

I have to see that.

Would be cool to see it in a video....

Next time I feed I will see 1) if she does it and 2) if I can catch it on camera.

Basically it looked just like every vid I have seen of a fem tail wagging when exposed to a male for breeding.

Not only snakes do it also, leopard geckos do it, and so do rattle snakes( Joking about the rattle snake)

Not only snakes do it also, leopard geckos do it

Yeah, lots of geckos do it. Back in my dark ages I had fat-tails and Coleonyx and they would do it as well.

Maybe it is just some strange imperative build into snakes, kinda like toe tapping in frogs...

Yes, babies do this all the time. To me it seems like excitement. I can get them to do it on command.

Take out a baby and place him on a table. It is best if they are not all "balled up" but relaxed with their head out of the coils. Take the palm of your hand and wave it in front of them about a foot away almost like you wanted to give them a "high five". Most will try and bite and then they will start wagging their tails.........

Corey

I have been dazzled by tail wagging myself, only not by a snake:devil:

my baby hypo does it also i think she is just excited

ed

I've got a year old boa who does it too!! I think it's cute!

I recently had an adult male ball do this the first time I offered an ASF (live). He is a very good feeder so could have been excitement or apprehension with an unfamiliar feeder but it seemed so slow and deliberate I immediately thought of the caudal luring. Funny I had never seen it with balls or heard of it and now it seems from this thread it's fairly common.

Some of my bps do it, the womas do it and the GTP's did when I had them.... I think with the bps and womas, it's excitement!