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can corns differentiate colors?

Mannieboots

Mannieboots

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Hello there;

can corn snakes tell what color is what? because when I went to play with my Simon today he was a lot more docile today then at the same time yesterday, no change in routine except he's in his new viv now for 4 days, I'm wearing a olive green t shirt today and yesterday had a white one on. Would the green seem to him more like the surroundings of his viv? My husband laughed at me when I mentioned it. Come to think about it every time I wear green he's seems somewhat more relaxed.
 
I don't think so, it was my understanding that snakes had very bad eyesight, and relied on their ability to sense heat more than anything.
 
Well, most reptiles are blind to the color red. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that certain colors calmed them. I know with one of my more... shall we say bitey... corns, if we cuddle her and hum lowly (pitch wise, not volume), she calms down rather quickly, and is much sweeter in general. There's all kinds of random tricks and tips that have yet to be discovered for taming the beasts. Maybe you've found one of them.
 
I don't know exactly what they see, or how they feel about it. But half of mine are in the bathroom (a very disproportionately large room in my flat), and come peeping out when I enter the bathroom. They are fascinated by bathroom activity. I think they see pretty well in close quarters.
If they are hungry, they are swarming to get near to me. All of them. Even waiting for me at the near end of their cages when I get up, or when I get home from work.

When I feed, I let the few pinkies and many fuzzies thaw laying out at room temp. And the platoon of worms knows it. Of course, it's not news to any of us that their sense of smell/taste (Jacobson's organ) is great, but sometimes I'm thinking they are smarter than I think. Not smart in a way to please me, but in an innate 'me me me' survival smart. They seem to know that 'I' am key to their survival, pretty doggone clearly. :laugh:

Interesting reading ' flehmening ' :

http://chemistry.about.com/cs/medical/a/aa051601a.htm
 
I think this is a pet friendly experiment that I am going to have to continue to persue, I have many different colored tees and I'll just have to keep notes on what ones Simon prefers. After all what else does a retiree do when the house cleaning and the gardening are done.
 
According to wikipedia, reptiles are either trichromats (like humans with normal color vision) or tetrachromats (which would give them ability to distinguish subtler differences between colors on the RGB color spectrum than trichromats--like 20% of women who can distinguish subtler differences in the red-blue spectrum than trichromats--if you're constantly arguing with your wife about whether something is blue or purple, she might be a tetrachromat). If it's true, then yes, they can see in color.
 
This sounds like an excellent science fair project! (Sorry for the teacher-talk. Sometimes I can't help myself.) As stated above, reptiles are know to be able to distinguish colors. It makes intuitive sense that they would have preferences and dislikes, but I'm unaware of any research about it.

As for their ability to detect heat, corns have no special heat-sensing ability as do certain other snakes (pit vipers come to mind). They thermoregulate by moving to an appropriate temperature, but they sense temps by touch just as you or I would do.
 
Caryl said:
This sounds like an excellent science fair project! (Sorry for the teacher-talk. Sometimes I can't help myself.) As stated above, reptiles are know to be able to distinguish colors. It makes intuitive sense that they would have preferences and dislikes, but I'm unaware of any research about it.

As for their ability to detect heat, corns have no special heat-sensing ability as do certain other snakes (pit vipers come to mind). They thermoregulate by moving to an appropriate temperature, but they sense temps by touch just as you or I would do.
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I agree that this would be a great science fair project, maybe I can intice my son to do it for his grade 12 bio next year. In the mean time I will give it a go.
 
Thanks, Julie. A good academic study is good any time of the day. Thanks for the link. Interesting study.
 
Julie F said:
This was a thread back in 2003 on this forum- well it was about corn snake intelligence. The way the University of Rochester tested it was with colored cards, the results may surprise you!

Link to study (almost done a decade ago- I can't believe I've had corn snakes this long): http://www.rochester.edu/pr/releases/bcs/snake.htm

Here's the link to the thread it was originally from: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5963
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Thanks for the link too. very interesting link. This explains why my Simon was so fast in finding his hide after I introduced him to it.
 
Julie F said:
This was a thread back in 2003 on this forum- well it was about corn snake intelligence. The way the University of Rochester tested it was with colored cards, the results may surprise you!

Link to study (almost done a decade ago- I can't believe I've had corn snakes this long): http://www.rochester.edu/pr/releases/bcs/snake.htm

Here's the link to the thread it was originally from: http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5963
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WOW...interesting article, thank you Julie.

Julie you have got to be the King/Queen of lurkers. You have been a member since 2002 and have only made 39 posts. There should be some kind of award for that.
 
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