Strange female behavior

[guidofatherof5]

With multiple births due in my big snake room I've notice the females have been very uneasy. They are doing a lot of enclosure circling.
I've seen this in females that are about to give birth but some of this is in non-gravid females. These are females that don't usually act this way.
Could the gravid females be giving off a hormone that is causing this unrest?
What are your thoughts?

[Tyrel26]

Ive noticed the same pacing sort of behavior in my gravid females as well, I think you may be on to something with the female giving off hormones. Have you considered putting a juvenile female in the tank to see what she does? Maybe a young female won't be as affected by this as opposed to one that is able to reproduce.

[ConcinusMan]

Could the gravid females be giving off a hormone that is causing this unrest?
What are your thoughts?

Definitely. The "smell of birth" affects all of them, regardless of sex, if they are close enough to smell it.

Stupid male concinnus, if left with a birthing mother, will try to mate with, or sometimes eat, anything that comes out of her.

Other females, like you said, just get restless.

I've seen that too.

[Snakeknot]

Giving birth definitely gives off a lot of smells. So my horses taught me when I used to be an assistant to a vet in the foaling season. Nothing they liked better than reading the news on me after I had assisted with a birth. They knew the moment I stepped out of the car their round bale was forgotten and I had three blonde heads looking at me with that "Where have you been?" look. It was kinda funny actually.

Devon