The practice of eating other snakes helps reduce competition for food resources and ensures a steady supply of prey. In addition to the King Cobra, the Eastern Kingsnake in North America is ...
Yosuke Kojima, a research fellow at Toho University, was among a research team that fed river snails to blunthead slug snakes to study how they eat their prey. “When I first saw it, I had no ...
We conclude that island tiger snakes can consume larger prey than ... their head sizes enlarge facultatively if they eat large prey. Our study demonstrates an important ecological role for ...
The snakes were then intentionally or accidentally released in South Florida and quickly spread out. Burmese pythons have few predators and prey on native species, eating just about anything ...