drat....=(

[ssssnakeluvr]

one of my baby hypermelanistic wanderings died this morning...I put the body in the freezer til I got home from work to take pics....anyone have any babies die like this???? I have had a few over the years.....not sure why they bite themselves..

[Snake lover 3-25]

woa strange...... sorry for you're loss

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

yes.... I had two sirtalis die like that this year

my guess is that they bite themselves because they are in some sort of pain, and they are biting where it hurts as if to bite an "attacker"?

[Stefan-A]

yes.... I had two sirtalis die like that this year

my guess is that they bite themselves because they are in some sort of pain, and they are biting where it hurts as if to bite an "attacker"?

My conclusion as well, but there's also a possibility that it's just a result of the spasms. This is something that my male did right before it died. Considering that I never got him to bite (or musk, or poop on) me, even when I was inspecting and cleaning his wounds, the pain must have been unimaginable. But since I saw how he bit himself (looked like he had zero control of his muscles, including the jaw muscles), I'm inclined to believe that it wasn't because of the pain.

[Snaky]

I had not seen that before. I have had once that a snake died and has substrate in his mouth. I think that this was also because of spasms...

Sorry for your loss, Don.

[GartersRock]

Oh how sad. So sorry Don...

[infernalis]

Thats just freaky, I like Shannons assumption......

Thanks for showing us that Don.

[Hornets23]

I was thinking it was a response to pain too....i never thought of it attacking whatever hurt. That seems probable though....sorry about the snake.

[drache]

sorry for the loss, Don

[jitami]

That is so strange... sorry Don