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 ...
While snakes can eat something that's still alive and might ... When a snake swallows very large prey, which Rosolie would certainly be, "their esophagus is stretched to the point of being paper ...
They will kill and eat animals that are nearly too big to swallow,” Bartoszek ... That allows them “to consume prey six times larger than similar-sized snakes of some other snake species ...
Besides the large absolute size of the deer that was eaten being impressive ... was very near the size limit on the prey that could be consumed by this snake,' said Bruce Jayne, a professor ...