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Originally Posted by Wildside
Let's not say pulse anymore then, let's just go with heartbeat in general. My curiosity has spiked from recent debating and curiosity as to why my constrictors feel the need to constrict f/t. I used to feed live. I'm ready to throw part of my original theory out the window but I wonder if the detection of a "heartbeat", say in the neck of a human, might trigger the instinct to constrict?
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Once the snake squeezes, and the blood pressure spikes out of control, there is no longer a heart beat. The blood is not flowing, so the heart can't contract against the ventricles full of pressurized blood.
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