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Why is my snake "vibrating"?

Trouser_snake

Trouser_snake

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I'm a new corn snake owner and I notice that sometimes my corn snake seems to "vibrate" his whole body when he's crawling on me. When it happens he seems very docile at the time. It also doesn't seem to be the "tail rattling" behaviour that I've read when they feel threatened. Maybe he's shivering cold and trying to warm up? I dunno, please help.
 
shaking stevens !!!

Do u mean that they sort of judder & jump ? well if yes then mine do the same. I have 2 corns & the eldest in particular does it from time to time - i dont think its anything to worry about as i have posted the same subject some time ago..but with my memory being so bad i cant recall the reason..sorry !!
 
Totally off topic but if you don't mind me asking, trouser snake, what in the heck do you need 15 hermit crabs for ?
 
Sometimes when they are nervous they will kind of jerk in spurts as they crawl. My one female did it alot when I first got her. As far as shivering, yes they do shiver. Green tree pythons will shiver to raise the temps of eggs they are incubating, so technically it works just like in humans.
 
I don't see any reason why snakes can't shiver, Shivering is a means of physiological heat production. It is the trembling or fibrillation of a muscle, that is cold, Surely snakes can do the same when needed?
 
I've noticed that Hunter "shivers" when I wake him up to hold him, or if I wake him up after hes fallen asleep on me hehe. Just assumed he was "stretching", tensing and relaxing muscles, I imagine their muscles are like most other animals and need to be stretched some after hours of immobility.
 
Aurora13 said:
Totally off topic but if you don't mind me asking, trouser snake, what in the heck do you need 15 hermit crabs for ?
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Hermit crabs are incredably addicting. They're quite cheap, 2 for $10-12 I believe, and it's encouraged to keep them housed together. Although 15 seems a little excessive, once you buy a few hermit crabs, it's on.

Actually I'd assume that this crowd would be pretty (or at least somewhat) understanding :grin01:
 
Snakes have no internal heating system so shivering wouldn't help anything to my opinion. There body doesn't produce exessive energy, only enough for their activities. That's why they cannot heat up their bodies from internal sources. But I'm not a bio-student or something so maybe I'm wrong.
 
I have the understanding that...

It is territorial. The dominant snake will do it to other snakes to show that "this is my home" I had two of my girls out for a "photo shoot" the other week and they did it, i asked my vet friend (who is a reptile specialist) and thats what he told me. Sometimes they'll do it because of that, and sometimes they will smell the opposite sex snake on you and they do that for courting....either way, it is normal... I have some that jump because they are scared too. No way of knowing what their little minds are up to.
 
Blutengel said:
Snakes have no internal heating system so shivering wouldn't help anything to my opinion. There body doesn't produce exessive energy, only enough for their activities. That's why they cannot heat up their bodies from internal sources. But I'm not a bio-student or something so maybe I'm wrong.
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That may be so, but shivering does generate heat. The females warm their eggs by shivering as I stated before, so it must work. I've also noticed that when my Green Tree Python is laying on top of the temperature probe of the thermostat, the temperature almost always gets higher. It should be the opposite as her body is blocking the probe from reading the heat from the ceramic heater.
 
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