A 🌈 Rainbow Boa 🐍 Story: Training Tuesday 28 December 2021
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Epicrates cenchria born 26 March 2018, female. Rowena arrived here when she was 8 weeks old and initially raised in a pseudo naturalistic enclosure with minimal handling and interference. She started target training at around a year of age.
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Oddly enough without ever doing any target training all I have to do is slide open one of my snakes enclosures glass doors and when I walk away they know that means that they are free to come out if they so choose to and likewise once they have had enough time out of their enclosures socializing they will go back into their enclosures on their own. These are natural habits they learn through repeating behaviors and having a close personal bond with their handler :) Very wise to give your snakes the freedom of choice and to be able to react out of their free will instead of being forced to do things they don't so choose to do my friend :)
Really like how well this went. She did outstanding.
Thank you!
Really nice session!
Brazilian Rainbow boas are awesome Snakes
This was really interesting as my Brazilian Rainbow can be very similar in how she reacts. My girl is the most willing right around the time when she's getting hungry. My girl also eats similarly to what was shown and described.
This was great and also enlightening because even with my younger snakes, I've had them a bit and didn't think of target training and was wondering if it would be an issue if they are habituated to other things already, but if she started at a year, I think I can work with that!
I have started target training snakes who have come here as adults and they do fine. Usually babies learn faster but the adults still learn it no problem.
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Do you think they actually comprehend the significance of the target, or is it more like associative conditioning?
It’s instrumental learning also referred to as operant conditioning. Through a shaping plan consisting of successive approximations taught in increments they learn the target cues an opportunity to earn reinforcement contingent upon performing a specific behavior. It’s something that is taught and learned over time. It starts with associative learning and then transitions to operant learning and goal directed behaviors.
Hey Lori! Love the informative video. I'm curious where you bought your enclosures?
Thank you! Which enclosures? We have about 9 different brands here.
My female Epicrates cenchria like to nose around her prey before eating as well.
That's fantastic but I am curious. If you reinforce target training with food, doesn't that put the snakes into food mode when they see the target?
If all you ever do is pair the target with food then yes, they associate it as a signal to eat and get into food mode. The goal is to move away from that step as soon as possible and make earning reinforcement contingent on performing a cued behavior first. Once they learn that which is operant conditioning, it actually calms feeding responses, teaches impulse control and they learn to appraise things first before assuming something is food. .
where did u get these white enclosures
The white enclosures are from BlackboxCages.com. I love them.
where did u get the white water bowl
Those water bowls are great because they can hide underneath them. I get them at our local grocery store, King Soopers.
What temperatures do you use during the day and what do you use at night for the Rainbow Boa???
It fluctuates with the temperature of the room but generally 72-85 F ambient with a hot spot 88-90. The tend to stay where it’s cooler.
@@LoriTorriniI've heard no higher than 85°F