I will look more into this. From what I read the most social were iguanas. I have to dig deeper though to fully answer this question. I agree that there is a lot of guess work and really nobody can answer this with 100% certainty but I am leaning toward most "affection" from snakes (at the least) being due to misinterpreting their actions. However, it certainly varies by animal. I will dig deeper and report back tomorrow with my findings on social reptiles.
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The hardest part I think is that we only see behaviors and it's really hard to ever be certain of the motivations behind them. If it looks like affection, how do we know that it is or isn't affection or some other emotion that we are not familiar with ourselves.