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Originally Posted by kudzu
Though the kingsnake has the odd habit of defecating in random places in his enclosure, including near the entrance to his hide or on top of his hide such that it sometimes drops down by the entrance. That means he has to go through the poop to use his hide entrance.
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My king poops with no rhyme or reason. Anywhere in her enclosure seems to be fair game. The milk snake tends to poop on the right 1/3 of the enclosure. The gopher snake is another story...I've had that snake since August 2015 and he's been in three separate enclosures and has pooped in his water bowl EVERY TIME with one exception, when it was right next to the bowl. Not saying this has anything to do with intelligence, just things I've noticed.
Now as for escaping, some of you will remember that my king snake escaped a while back. She has since been moved to a new enclosure, but still is always trying to force her way out of the same corner that she broke out of in her old enclosure. I rarely see her trying at other corners, it's almost like she remembers that it was that front right corner where she could get out. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it's odd nonetheless.
Like Eminart said, I don't think snakes are intelligent in any comparable way to humans. I do think that they are smarter than most people give them credit for (and by "most people" I mean those that haven't owned/worked with/observed snakes for some time).
Feel free to correct my mistakes.
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