Yesterday, LG gave birth to her babies. The night before delivering she was restless.
Going from the cold side to the hot side up in the vines all over the enclosure. From that I knew she was close to delivering.
The thing that really caught my eye was that during the last week she's had a shadow. My girl Shade was always with her when she was just sitting. None of the other snakes were hanging around her. If she was in the cold hide, Shade was right next to her. Same in the hot hide. While LG gave birth, Shade was close by but none of the other snakes were. When I would take a baby out Shade would come over and see what I was doing. She'd come up and smell my hand and the baby.
It was probably some hormone from LG or the smell of birth, I don't know. Shade was never aggressive towards LG or anything weird/strange.
It was almost as if Shade was looking out for LG.
Maybe Shade was playing midwife.
These snakes are always doing something to spark my interest.