|
Snake Eats Snake
|
• Colubrids – boomslangs, tree snakes, vine snakes, mangrove snakes, although not all colubrids are venomous.:209
Behavior
All snakes are strictly carnivorous, eating small animals including lizards, other snakes, small mammals, birds, eggs, fish, snails or insects. Because snakes cannot bite or tear their food to pieces, they must swallow prey whole. The body size of a snake has a major influence on its eating habits. Smaller snakes eat smaller prey. Juvenile pythons might start out feeding on lizards or mice and graduate to small deer or antelope as an adult, for example.
|
|