Baby Boa's

[Josh]

I mean you can tell there gonna get big. The one baby on the far right looks like he is on steroids ( no clue on spelling)

[KITKAT]

Just read another thread, where there were baby ribbons born. Then I read this thread.

And it occurred to me that here we have "Ribbons and Boas"

[adamanteus]

And it occurred to me that here we have "Ribbons and Boas"

Haha! Brilliant!

[chloe]

All babies are doing well and hissing at me already. They are big babies they were very over due, I think they are between 20 and 24 inches.

[nelda_rrr]

my son said that's cool!

[Sputnik]

All babies are doing well and hissing at me already.

Just this morning I was thinking about all these silent snakes and how I have not heard any of mine hiss. I was beginning to think hissing snakes were a myth (only kidding). But can be a bit of a disadvantage that you usually can't hear so many kinds, you'd have no idea if you stepped on one and hurt it for example.

So, stupid question... do garters and corns hiss?

[adamanteus]

I don't remember hearing my Garters hiss, others may know different. The biggest (loudest) hissers I've known are Cobras, very, very loud! Grass snakes hiss quite a lot when you first catch them too.

[Sputnik]

I bet it sounds impressive. Will have to find out someday. Corns are amazing rattlers when they're unhappy but I don't remember having heard them hiss.

[adamanteus]

The problem for we Brits is that we never see a Garter (or a Corn) in the wild. So we can't really know if they hiss when they're first captured.

[Sputnik]

I feel deprived. Why do we have so few kinds of snakes here? The climate? Though I guess many of the snakes that we only keep in captivity could possibly survive in this weather. Not that I'd like to test this theory.