Not Convinced

[Ahket]

I've had a long association with all kinds of animals during my life, from insects, to wild Sun bears in S.E.Asia, and have, in most cases, had some form of response from most of them.( Although the large King Cobra made his message very clear).
What has spurred me to start this thread is that the general opnion is that snakes are not smart! Most seem to describe them as some unfeeling eating machine, but I know human beings that are similar in habits.
Point is, I've been suspecting that my 10month old Eric the Spotted must have been blessed with something else's brain! After having him for three months and handling nearly every day,I've had a couple of nudges, but no bites if he's not in a mood to play.
Then this morning, he's waiting at the front of his enclosure, watching me and waiting for his regular 9:30 feed.No snapping,just waited until I transferred him to his feeding area, and straight into two pinkies.Now satisfied,he's in his hide digesting.
Is this some sort of rarity, or am I imagining things? (It does happen)!

 

[Tikanderoga]

My boas showed similar behaviour:
Usually they were sleeping, but when I came home, both came out of their sleeping places and greeted me at the walls of their enclosure.

 

[REPTILIAN-KMAN]

i beleive Reptiles ( pythons, snakes and lizards) are very intelligent, My 7 Footer coastal carpet learnt how to escape from its enclousre using a three step process failure of any one of these steps and she could not escape but when done the correct way was done and step by step she could escape. i had also got eastern water dragons and have now been finding them escaping only to come home and find the outside there enclosure i have at one section of there tank a large air hole at the top of the tank and i cant work out how they escape out of this hole asd its high up and when i clean there enclosure every day i put them into a tub half the size maybe less and they cant escape from there i can leave them in there for hours but cant escape but with a greater gap they mange to escape.

 

[hnn17]

eastern water dragons, they can jump higher than you expect.

 

[GSMenardi]

I think reptiles/snakes are way smarter than people credit them to be. A lot of people aren't open to the idea that snakes aren't just dumb eating machines and even though they treat their snakes really well, they have no real connection with them imo.

 

[Nighthawk]

My mother in law's Olive has a wicked personality; when she first got him he took to her straight away. We tried to pop him in the tub he was supposed to live in before being introduced to his tank as we were told not to put him in too large a space at first so as not to stress him out, immediately he was up at the sides and nosing at the top. So she let him out and out he popped, full strike speed, straight around her shoulders. If he'd had limbs he would've been hugging her. When she had to leave for a while he sulked flat out for a couple of weeks. You can't tell me snakes don't form attachments or feel affection for certain people, not with the way Gizmo acts around his 'mum'!

 

[mysnakesau]

I think they have a brain in their head. Mine learn to open the doors of their tanks to escape. One might think, "oh that was just a fluke of the door sliding open, won't happen twice." BS - they did it once and knew exactly what they had to do, to do it again. If I forget to lock them glass doors they will be out. They nose at the doors, and to my surprise even my yearling jungle has more strength than I thought and also got his door open a couple times.