Burms; Personality vs gender

[Reticu-Lady]

Ok, I have a strange question (again)
I now have 2.2 burms. All unrelated. Both my females and the two females I had previously, were docile, sweet and appear to enjoy attention. Now, my boys are hissy and defensive. Murray has permantly damaged my hand. I have owned the last four since babies. Three still are rather young, so I would actually expect defensive behaviour from them, but two of the three (the girls) are perfectly even-tempered. I even take one of them to school to let the little kids maul her. She apparantly loves it. (As does my female retic).
Is this a gender thing, or do I just have a pack of truly weird snakes? [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
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[Dr.Oviparous]

I don't know, but I'm really interested in to hear what people say.....
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[Reticu-Lady]

Me, too. I understand the personality differences between the genders in most dog breeds, but this is just something I have been worndering a lot lately. Can't wait until someone wakes up and replies [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]
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[bigred]

Maybe this can help: I have never kept a male burm, only females, but a friend of mine had a rather nasty experience with a male.
The male was about 8ft and had been a kitten for the 2 yrs that she had kept him. One day she opened his cage to clean the water and from nowhere he struck her hand and coiled her!!!
Luckily her husband was in the bathroom next door and heard her and sprayed the burm with Frontline flea spray, and the burm disengaged his teeth and was uncoiled.
She was shocked, to say the least, but eventually worked out that it was mating season.
Apparently the males become more aggro during mating season, especially if there is a female in the cage.
Typical men !!!
Hope that helps
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[impermanentrage]

How old are these males?
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[KolleenJ]

Well..... All my adult females seem so laid back and seem to just want attention and to be handled. and taken out of their enclosures. For example, my 16 ft female, Lucy comes right over to me, kindof slow, when I enter her room, not for food(at least I think) because she tries to climb into my arms and leave the room with me(obviously I cant even begain to pick her up alone). She will follow me all around the house and when I sit on the couch, she has to too. Same with my 11 ft albino and 8 ft albino green. Just so laid back and they too go to schools with me for presentations. But I do not trust my males.....
My adult males seem to be very rowdy and fiesty. They are always showing me where their turf is in pre or post breeding season, which I understand due to them being adults. They definately keep me more on my toes than my females(and yes I stay on my toes always anyway). They are tame, but definately seem to be more alert/aware/care more?? of their surroundings and what Im doing and every move I make. And as bigred was saying, sexually mature males, at breeding season are way more aggro. My kitten tame male actually struck at the cage once this season while in with my female. I could'nt believe it!! My little boy i had raised from a baby, but this was his first sexually mature year.
Hope this helps,sorry if it does'nt and just for the #$%^&#$%^&#$%^&#$%^& of it, here is a pic of my females playing together in lucys room. We have play time once a week with the females. As the pic shows, Lucy is beginning hed climb into my arms. Shw does it every time [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] There is no way I could do this with my males...they get to aggro towards each other and me when they are together.

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[Ravnos]

Currently, I have 5.6 burms, ranging from yearlings to a 12 year old male and 16 year old female. I have noticed no appreciable personality difference which I can attribute to gender. I've seen many differences in personality; some more active, some more inquisitive, some more interested in people and so forth, but nothing I could actually pin down and say 'Only males do that, only females do this.'

Rav
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I've got both males and females myself also. I don't notice anything that relates to a gender thing in personality either.
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[Reticu-Lady]

Hmmm, maybe I do have weird snakes. But Murray is definitly of breeding size/age. (4 years old) Amedeus is just a wee lad at less than a year old himself, but I honestly thought he would have mellowed a bit by now, he seems a bit worse, not better. My girls are sweethearts. Antoinette has been a gem since the day I got her home, and she is not from 'good source' - pet shop, covered in mites, non feeding, etc. She is the nicest thus far. Anastasia is also another babe. She is a Bob Clark girl that I just got last Sunday. I expected her to be snappy or shy, instead, she just hangs out and lets me pet her head and wear her while I type here (Hasn't gone to school yet, but soon)
Murray I can understand, his mother was aggressive and he is an adult male. I guess I will just be happy that if I am to have half my burms be grumpish, it would be the hopefully smaller sized males, not the gargantuan females.
But does Murray not realize that the main reason I won't use him for breeding is his temperament? Man, if he was just a nice fellow, life could have been so much sweeter for him [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img]
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[dee]

I can't say as I believe it's a gender thing. I have 4 burms, 2 female and 2 male, the boys are albino and the girls are normal phase. One of the boys is shy and basically lazy and real laid back, the other is very outgoing and curious and extremely active, and this pretty much holds true with my girls, one is rotten and curious and active and the other is laidback and gentle and all. They all range in size from 9.5 ft to over 11 ft, there ages are from 4 yrs to 7 years(Ithink), and to be honest none of them are hissy alot or nippy either.(of course they do have their individual "moments" from time to time).
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