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how do i tell if a snake is overweight or underweight ?
An underweight snake you can see it’s spine protruding more that usual. It will look like they’re sucking in all the air and not letting it go. They are more triangle shaped than a healthy round. My own snake, Mercer Frey is underweight. He’s a picky eater and if anything, ANYTHING, disturbs him he will not eat, so far to even regurgitate the food. Between moves, sickness and just being angry, he lost the weight. But getting him on a schedule for eating has helped, getting the temperatures correct, and even placing a big heavy blanket over his cage, when he eats, helps. An overweight snake will have creases in the wrong spot, like rolls. Their actual tails, the nubs past the cloaca, will be hella smaller than the rest of their body, like an ongoing “poopy butt” but all the snake. Or the snake may seem segmented or random fat deposits on it. The spine will not show, it may seem bowed! You need to see some sort of spine! The belly may seem more squishy than firm. To help an overweight snake, make sure to give it lots of space to roam. Do not keep it in a cramped container (or even with a healthy snake give them space)! Perhaps a slightly smaller prey item (10% of the weight the snake should be) and continue to feed it every 1 week. If I got any information wrong, or if you would like to add, please do! I am by no means an expert with weight on a snake.
I take it this is BP specific? I ask because short tails actually should be rounded triangles in cross section. Like squat guitar picks. If they’re circular they are much too fat.
Creases and bent scales also sometimes happen if a snake spends a lot of time curled up in one position, especially in a humid hide. I constantly have this issue with Riese as sitting motionless right on the border between dry and damp substrate is his preferred activity. I’m trying to convince him to spend more time elsewhere, with limited success. He really likes his hole.
BP and CS. I totally forgot about short tails! Yeah, they need to be more squareish. The BPs and CS have more rounder faces so a healthy round is needed. While the STs have a square face, so a healthy square?? I’ll tag some people that may know more about them!
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@fimbry can give more details on short tailed pythons, but no they should not have square bodies. Here are some diagrams to show the different body conditions in short tails:
Bird’s eye view:
Cross section of body (applies to ball pythons too):
Ball pythons shouldn’t be loaf or square shaped, they aren’t Boa constrictor or B. imperator. These snakes are different physiologically, so they shouldn’t have the same rules apply to them. @wheremyscalesslither can give more details as well as the Not Just a Pet Rock (Python regius) Facebook group.
I’m in the “feed less means more” camp in regards to feeding, with some exceptions such as active snakes with high metabolisms. But even then, feeding once a week is way too much for commonly kept pet snakes. Even every two weeks is too much for some species. Prey size too is often much too large and coupled with a frequent feeding schedule…that’s usually the recipe for an overweight or obese snake. There are multiple signs indicating overweightness and obesity so don’t just rely on one characteristic!
Small enclosure sizes and lack of enrichment is definitely a factor as well, but I say the main culprit is too much food being fed too often.
Some links expanding on powerfeeding (1, 2 - you’ll see some pictures of fat beaked snakes that I acquired).
But what does a fat snake look like?
Here are some examples of some colubrids:
Bull snake - notice the “canyon” spine, poor muscle tone, fatty “hips,” and lack of a neck.
Indigo - that double chin tho. Circular cross-section of body, lack of muscle tone, literally NO NECK.
Corn snake - spine, what spine? Circular cross section, no muscle tone, overall sausage-y appearance…can’t really see the fat “hips” here but if you know this person you’ll see it in his other photographs.
California king snake - basically same signs (canyon spine, losing muscle tone, getting a bit circular in cross-section), but because this snake is younger it hasn’t had enough time to pack on the extra fat. :/
Yes, I nabbed the above photographs all from one person. Why? Because his animals are perfect examples of overweight/obese snakes.
Black tailed cribo - …I don’t think I need to elaborate on this one.
But what does a healthy snake look like?
Here are some pictures from iNaturalist:
Bull snakes
(Credit to user bobbyfingers - link) - WC adult bull snake
(Credit to user tholling - link) - WC adult bull snake
Indigos (different spp., includes cribos)
(Credit to Pete Pattavina, USFW service biologist - page here)
(Credit to user jcentavo - link)
(Credit to user linderman - link)
(Credit to user sullivanribbit - link, notice how body changes with behavior, in this case with a slightly defensive pose)
Kings and corns
(Credit to user prakit - link)
(Credit to user naturenate - link)
(Credit to user falloncox - link)
(Credit to user jkleopfer - link)
(Credit to user woody5 - link)
Oftentimes, our best bet is to compare against pictures of healthy-looking, wild specimens. This is why I find iNaturalist, Reptile Database, and other field herping sites to be invaluable.
Such a great resource! I’m also in the camp that over-feeding is what causes the bulk of snake obesity. Of course small enclosure size contributes as well but (imo) to a much smaller degree. Grow ‘em slow!
I was asked to comment on this so I’m dusting my sad rarely-updated snake blog off to discuss more examples.
The biggest thing to keep in mind is also that “wild snake” does not necessarily mean “healthy snake”. Additionally, while a few tells work for specific species, there is no one tell besides “this snake is clearly way too fat because it looks like its melting into the floor” body condition that works for all snakes.
I’m also agreeing with the sentiment that most often, snakes that are too fat in captivity are too fat predominantly because of overfeeding. Not necessarily powerfeeding- ime I can usually tell when a snake has been powerfed vs just too much food in general, and most fat snakes you see in captivity are just overfed to the point of obesity. I was explaining this to the person who asked me about it off tumblr, but basically- the majority of snakes are designed to be ambush predators that don’t have a very high success rate, and even when they do succeed if something bothers them too much before they’re done digesting then they regurgitate and get very little nutrition for all that work.
As a result, you get some pretty wild stuff like when my ball python Q decided to go off feed for 9 months because for whatever reason he doesn’t like rats anymore despite eating rats for three years straight and it took me that long to think maybe I should try offering a mouse instead. He was just under 2000 grams at the time. He lost about 20 grams. A weight loss of only 0.01% after 9 months of zero nutritional intake is pretty amazing stuff and it wouldn’t be possible if a snake’s metabolism was actually meant to be consuming big prey items on a weekly basis at all times. For those interested, Q is now nearly 7 and has been on a steady diet of 2-3 jumbo mice once every 2-3 weeks and is eating like a charm. I had him on a weekly basis, but he was getting quite fat, so I delayed feedings to slim him down.
Another problem isn’t necessarily small enclosures but bare enclosures. I don’t think keeping an adult ball python in a shoebox is really a good way to go, but I also don’t think keeping an adult ball python in a huge cage with literally nothing to do except go from hide to hide or sit in the water bowl is really that much better for your animal. Enrichment matters! The complaint of too little muscle tone is easy to fix if proper enrichment options were made available.
Anyway- a few things before I toss some more example photos in here. Indigos do have a pouch under their chin, even wild indigos have one, so that’s not so much a tell of obesity as it is just part of the snake.
[https://srelherp.uga.edu/]
This is a wild indigo. It still has a “double chin”. They do that. It’s supposed to be there. The example snake is a bit chunky, but the flap under the chin is not caused by fatty deposits.
Similarly, the corn snake honestly has a bigger problem with “too little muscle tone” rather than “too much fat”, and could likely be kept on the same feeding schedule if more enrichment was provided.
Speaking of, you can’t always rely on healthy-appearing wild snakes to not be fat. This burmese was, supposedly, found in the Everglades by a ranger. It’s starting to get pretty fat. Clearly this fella’s had no issues finding food and a safe place to hide, but also this is not the weight or shape of a healthy burm.
[https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/state–regional/cerabino-burmese-python-hunt-florida-fit/gyl4PB95OVorFSxiZTrgeI/]
This is also supposedly a feral burm found in the Everglades, and this one is not fat. So be careful basing your ideal weights on what’s found without human help. I’ve seen plenty of fat wild animals running around to know that an animal gets fat from eating too much, and they’re going to get that way with or without our help.
Anyway. I tend to divide snakes into three body-shape categories. Flat-sided (or thin-bodied), cylindrical, and thick-bodied. A good visual for these three categories would be amazon tree boas, bci and bcc, and short-tailed pythons.
[http://franclycac.com/wordpress1/]
Amazon tree boas, like most tree snakes, are thin bodied and flat-sided. A lot of people jokingly refer to them as angry shoelaces and it’s not hard to see why. These two are actually a perfect weight for their species, but would be deemed “too thin” by most people trying to go off of what’s available in this post.
This is a baby boa constrictor eating its first meal. It’s too young to ever have built up any fatty deposits, yet its spine is still slightly recessed in this photo. That’s because boas like this one are built like a rectangular tube rather than like a triangle or a shoelace. You should never see spine with snakes built like this as it means they are becoming very underweight. Similarly, the above burms are also rectangular tubes, rather than triangles or shoelaces, so the same applies to them.
This is also a young boa, but you can still see how the spine is not supposed to stick out of the body and how the body is much more of a square than anything else. This is a good body weight for this snake.
Comparatively, this is an adult STP that is a nice weight. These are thick-bodied snakes, like a curvy triangle, and should look about like this. Notice how different this snake looks compared to the other two body types. Ball pythons are also thick-bodied snakes, but they’re a significantly less dramatic example of that type.
I’m realizing that all of my examples have been boids and pythons and it’s not that big a surprise that those are the species I tend to prefer over vipers or colubrids or other types of snakes, but still. It’s a good idea to learn what your individual species is supposed to look like, and what body type they have, because trying to compare these three body types can be detrimental if you’re expecting an amazon to look like a blood or a burm to look like a ball.
Actually, the burm @boidboi posted isn’t overweight at all. It’s a pretty lean animal that is a nice example of weight for the species. They are normally round snakes, and a burm at healthy weight shows muscular definition along the spine. You can see this in both examples. They are both lean and fit, with hardly any flab towards the belly.
As for the indigo, the wild animal given as an example is flattening its neck in a stressful, possibly predatory situation (from its perspective). This genus does tend to have loose skin around the neck, but it shouldn’t be constantly visible or lumpy. You can see in the captive examples that the fat deposits have reached all the way to the throats of the animal and given them a round appearance. Drymarchon that are cbb and are used to handling often don’t display when interacted with.
There are a lot of valid points made, especially about snakes varying in how they display obesity. There is no one-size-fits-all rule for every species. But I would say that a healthy individual from the wild shows the weight their bodies are designed to maintain. There are sick, skinny animals, sure. But wild snakes in pristine habitat are not obese. If anything, they’re leaner than captive animals, even if it’s a great spot for them.
The only wild snakes I’ve seen that were actually fat are adult Nerodia around man-made lakes. They have few predators there, but even so, they weren’t what I’d call obese.
Cat Claw retraction
This is such a beautifully done graphic! It shows, really well, why declawing your cat can be so excruciating and disabling for the rest of their life. Notice how the bottom of the 3rd toe bone is mostly what’s weight bearing? If you amputate that bone (which is the most common surgery) the end of that 2nd toe that’s never meant to bear weight will be what your cat puts weight on when it steps. Also, notice how the tendon runs the whole length of the toe? That means when you cut the tendons to that final, amputated digit, you’re going to mess up tendon function in the entire toe.
This was reposted from @alithographica who does a lot of similarly incredible informational posts about animals.
Here’s the original: http://alithographica.tumblr.com/post/162998760526/as-much-as-it-pains-me-i-must-admit-the-animation
Thank you for posting the full link! I saw the attribution on the image and thought it was the original post - I try not to share reposts. Reblogging so the appropriate blog gets credit.
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This campaign defies censorship in social media to raise awareness for early detection of breast cancer
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Reblogging as this is so important everyone! My mum had breast cancer and that shit is not nice so please check yourself ladies and gents! 💕💕💕
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CASC - Long March-2C launches twin satellites
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Long March-2C rocket launch (illustration). Image Credit: Xinhua
A Long March-2C rocket successfully launched new-tech experiment twin satellites from Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan province, on 27 June 2018, at 03:30 UTC (11:30 local time).
Long March-2C launches twin satellites
A Chinese Long March 2C rocket will launch two inter-satellites network. According to official sources, the satellites entered their intended orbit and their mission is to link the inter-satellite network and conduct new technology tests on Earth-observation satellites. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC): http://english.spacechina.com/n16421/index.html Image (mentioned), Video, Text, Credits: CASC/CCTV+/SciNews. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article
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