What did we do?

We investigated four snakes from the snake shop where LeighAnne works. Snakes aren't really into cookies or chips like we are, so we prepared food samples snakes might like. We got live minnows from a bait shop, a frog and a frozen mouse from the reptile store that we soaked in water. We were only interested in the sample's smell, so we dipped cotton swabs into each sample's water. We also made a control sample of plain water. We put each scented swab into the snake's cage one at a time, waited for it to get close and then counted the number of tongue flicks we saw in one minute. more...