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RE: flashlights and pit-vipers
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by Scott7590 on December 2, 2005
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Some years ago I had a copperhead in an aquarium. I lit a cigarette lighter near the cage and the snake struck the glass twice (before I had a chance to extinguish the lighter). I attributed this to the heat from the lighter's flame.
I don't know how much heat a flashlight emits, but as sensitive as pit-vipers are to heat they should easily detect even minute amounts of it.
I wonder how a viper (a gaboon, for example) would react to the beam of a flashlight.
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by Dadee on December 5, 2005
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I'm wondering, how close you were to that enclosure, when you lit up. I too am part of the "carcinogen intakers" and have lit up my hot room...probably not the best idea, since they are already prone to cancers, however, I've not witnessed any of this sort of behavior. I do know that they would follow movements, but not light sources. Although I don't have them any longer, I did try the test that Dean had used on his bushmasters, in an attempt to see if it carried over to other species of pitvipers. I noticed that they would attack a balloon that was recently blown up with my warm air, but if left to cool down, no strike was invoked.
Since my collections' demise, I can't wait to relocate south, where one state in particular has a great system in place, where I can once again care for and watch these beautiful creatures. I would like to know more about Deans' test environment and the controls that he used.
Dean does hold some great admiration from a vast amount of people for his work and specialization of studies of this particular species.
Cheers,
Matt
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by jared on December 9, 2005
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Bushmaters in particular are the only pitviper I have worked with that absolutely pound on beams of lighr. While working with Dean you could simply point a beam of light in one of the bushies stumps and they come flyin out, attacking the beam viciously and ruthlessly, pursuing it as long as the light is on. It is rather amazing but as I said bushmasters seem to be the only ones to respond to light like that. So in conclusion, yes bushmasters will attack flashlights, sp probably a bad idea to use them on bushies.
Jared L Watts
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by jared on December 9, 2005
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Bushmaters in particular are the only pitviper I have worked with that absolutely pound on beams of lighr. While working with Dean you could simply point a beam of light in one of the bushies stumps and they come flyin out, attacking the beam viciously and ruthlessly, pursuing it as long as the light is on. It is rather amazing but as I said bushmasters seem to be the only ones to respond to light like that. So in conclusion, yes bushmasters will attack flashlights, sp probably a bad idea to use them on bushies.
Jared L Watts
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