Anonymous asked:
You could use feeding time for camera training? Like, start with it just kinda being in view and go from there?
omg-snakes answered:
I already do take photos of the babies immediately before feeding.
Although… I didn’t produce Meteorite. Nor did I produce any of my consistently camera-shy snakes.
Oh dang I think you’re onto something here! :o
To clarify here, I only photograph little babies before feeding.
I’m going to attempt photo-training older snakes like Meteorite and Rosepink, who are both camera-shy, using the same method used on neonates.
Anonymous asked:
You could use feeding time for camera training? Like, start with it just kinda being in view and go from there?
I already do take photos of the babies immediately before feeding.
Although… I didn’t produce Meteorite. Nor did I produce any of my consistently camera-shy snakes.
Oh dang I think you’re onto something here! :o
Anonymous asked:
The camera lens(es) probably look like huge eyes to them, and thus are presumed to be predator eyes looking right at them.
That’s kinda what I was thinking, too, since they seem generally okay sniffing the screen and edges of the camera when offered.
It could also be the looming action?
A camera behaves very similarly to a predator.
A camera makes no effort whatsoever to ingratiate itself to a snake in the way a hand does. There’s no introduction and the only behavioral reinforcement is that if a snake is calm and cooperative, the camera goes away faster. But this is also sort of true if they’re uncooperative.
Hmm. Maybe I should start camera-training my snakes.