Fascinating, because I doubt you see it in the wild. I suppose two neurological systems melded together over years or decades meld together and exchange qualities.
Thanks for the info.
Actually, I have.
My beloved Bubby [RIP] loved my Boa, Pinky, and would let him slither around on him on the sofa.
Out in the backyard were some garter snakes who commonly would bask in the sun on the bench or the rocks around the tree.
Bubby would make a beeline for one particular Garter and lick its face.
That little snake would lean into that like it was the best thing in the world.
Every summer, they would enact this bizarre, forbidden love affair until Bubby suddenly died.
I didn’t see the Garter after that, as if it knew Bubby was gone.
Maybe the snake was in the yard when Bubby fell dead.
This spring, the little Garter popped up again, from under the back porch and laid there, watching Hrafi running around the yard and would hesitantly inch towards the place Hrafi passed by the porch, every lap.
He was extremely interested in that dog, as if he thought maybe Bubby was “back”, since Dobes pretty much look the same.
Hrafi doesn’t share Bubby’s love of snakes so I picked it up and placed it back away from the open yard so it would come to no harm.
It kinda broke my heart and made me miss Bubby even more.
I realize that sounds crazy as hell and if I hadn’t seen it happening, with my own eyes, I would’ve thought it impossible, too.
There are more things in heaven and earth....