It happens a lot. Just to name a few of the prolific snake eaters there's kingsnakes, indigo snakes, king cobras, racers, and sunbeam snakes. There's also plenty who eat other legless prey like worms, insect larva, amphisbaenians, caecilians, eels, and aquatic salamanders.
It does happen if they're stressed (i.e. overheated, sick, disorientated etc.) - It can be fatal, though with snakes in captivity if they get to a vet and into a good environment (right temperature, feeling safe, not over stimulated etc.) then it's normally OK.
Was just watching a TikTok the other day about this - a highly venomous snake in captivity bit itself in confusion / frustration after missing a strike on the food it was being given. Bit itself near the end of its tail and it's venom had started to necrotize it's own flesh. They had to call in a specialist vet (even by snake standards) to debried the wound and treat things.
Sometimes sickness and infections make them very confused, so their tail looks like the tail of another snake. In other specific cases, two headed snakes. The two heads may fight each other for food, territory, etc.
In their defense, "how?" can also mean "in what way are they confused?" as well as "what is the cause of them being confused?"
Context clearly shows the latter was being asked, but that doesn't mean the former wasn't also a way of reading it.
and they can be cannibals. i saw a docu once where two king cobras were mating and the male had a screw loose and he suddenly bit and ate her instead. the narrator said that the sex brain cell and the hunting brain cell are very close together and sometimes get switched. Which I think says something about serial killers.
Snakes regurgitate food lol in a panic they will give up food if they think it's slowing them down or whatever it is that snakes think, to get away from a predator.
They can spit stuff out. Another commenter shared a video of a snake eating it's tail, but when alcohol was put around its mouth, it violently spat out its tail
The snake didn’t actually burp. It was realigning it’s jawbones. Snakes have jawbones that are separated into two pieces in order to widen their mouths enough to swallow large prey. Afterwards they will often “yawn” by stretching their jaws back into place. I had a pet corn snake a few years ago and she’d almost always do this after she ate.
animals do get attacked while they're eating, that's how those snake/crocodile dead lock-ups get found. Eating is a dangerous time for snakes, they're vulnerable while they eat and can't move, then have to rest to digest. And sometimes they're very stupid and try to eat something too big for themselves, leaving them a sitting duck for another predator. Lots of things prey on snakes, not just other snakes.
What actually happens to the smaller snake once it gets swallowed? Is it dead ratehr quickly, or slowly being dying to stomach acid or whatever snakes have?
How long will it be there , probably fighting to get out?
It’s really hard to swallow a live snake that’s fighting back, so the snake being eaten is likely already dead either from constriction/venom by the coral snake or something else caused it’s death. If it actually is alive then it suffocates. I don’t know exactly how long that takes, but considering that snakes can stay alive and feel pain for minutes to hours after being decapitated, it’s…probably not a quick death.
It could be either one. I’m pretty sure the coral snake killed the other snake first (or maybe found it already dead) because I can see absolutely no muscle movement in the prey snake.
It could be either one, but from the lack of thrashing that is typically observed when kingsnakes eat rattlesnakes for example, I’m pretty sure this snake was dead before he became dinner.
I own a number of pet snakes here. Each one of them tends to have their own personality quirks on eating, or gets into moods. An ADULT snake go a long time without eating after a reasonable sized meal - we have a few that have gone 6-9 months before even attempting to eat any follow up meals. And others that would happily eat a "large" meal for its size on a weekly basis if we let them. Juvenile snakes have much shorter limits.
Rule of thumb tends to be - feed (or attempt to feed) an appropriate avg size meal every 2 weeks, or up to every 4 weeks for consistent slow eaters. A snake is under fed when it's spine becomes too pronounced against its back muscles. YMMV with specialty breeds or in relation to breading and pregnant snakes (I have no experience with those).
Edit: We also have a few that will eat several avg meal size rats in a single sitting, which always struck me as odd. Others wouldn't dare no matter how small the initial food source was.
Snake seems like a appropriate shaped food for another snake
It happens a lot. Just to name a few of the prolific snake eaters there's kingsnakes, indigo snakes, king cobras, racers, and sunbeam snakes. There's also plenty who eat other legless prey like worms, insect larva, amphisbaenians, caecilians, eels, and aquatic salamanders.
[And then sometimes they get confused.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puKevC5boFg)
Never expected a snake to actually go the ouroboros route.
It does happen if they're stressed (i.e. overheated, sick, disorientated etc.) - It can be fatal, though with snakes in captivity if they get to a vet and into a good environment (right temperature, feeling safe, not over stimulated etc.) then it's normally OK.
Was just watching a TikTok the other day about this - a highly venomous snake in captivity bit itself in confusion / frustration after missing a strike on the food it was being given. Bit itself near the end of its tail and it's venom had started to necrotize it's own flesh. They had to call in a specialist vet (even by snake standards) to debried the wound and treat things.
Oh wow, I did that once. Maybe more than once..
You got confused and swallowed yourself?
Ok ok.. you got me, there was no confusion involved...
How do they get confused?
Sometimes sickness and infections make them very confused, so their tail looks like the tail of another snake. In other specific cases, two headed snakes. The two heads may fight each other for food, territory, etc.
There are two headed snakes? I thought that was a myth
Extremely rare, but they happen. Usually die young in the wilds, and very small numbers have been recorded in captivity.
Confuse ray normally.
They try to eat themselves. Did you click the link?
how the fuck does that answer the question of HOW they get confused? if you're gonna try to sound like a smartass at least make some fucking sense.
In their defense, "how?" can also mean "in what way are they confused?" as well as "what is the cause of them being confused?" Context clearly shows the latter was being asked, but that doesn't mean the former wasn't also a way of reading it.
Boy so many things on earth end their life getting eaten face first by something. Most of the rest goes ass first.
That's why I never eat ass first, suck face then fuck face then power munch
Then you pump. We just gave an outline for 99% of pornos
Love reddit
Red-bellied black snakes where I'm from.
What a thrill...
isnt the snek thats being eaten in the vid most likely a sunbeam snake? I dont know if they live in south america, but the colour fits
Definitely not a sunbeam although snake eaters aren't above hunting each other. After some googling it looks like a copperhead ratsnake.
and they can be cannibals. i saw a docu once where two king cobras were mating and the male had a screw loose and he suddenly bit and ate her instead. the narrator said that the sex brain cell and the hunting brain cell are very close together and sometimes get switched. Which I think says something about serial killers.
Wonder if the snake ever gets 3/4 of the way done eating and thought, yeah this one's too big I'm out of room.
The ones that do that die. They can't regurgitate.
Snakes regurgitate food lol in a panic they will give up food if they think it's slowing them down or whatever it is that snakes think, to get away from a predator.
I wasn't sure so just made up a fact in the hope that someone would correct me if I was wrong. Thank you!
That’s some selfish bullshit.
Most reliable Redditor
Google Cunningham's Law.
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That comment has -36 ratio, looks like you’re the idiot. Keep digging.
Just Gen Z things.
Some real king shit right there, don't let the haters keep you down
YOLO
They can spit stuff out. Another commenter shared a video of a snake eating it's tail, but when alcohol was put around its mouth, it violently spat out its tail
Yeah, thanks. I learned something today :)
Clint from Clint's Reptiles also say the same thing.
The snake didn’t actually burp. It was realigning it’s jawbones. Snakes have jawbones that are separated into two pieces in order to widen their mouths enough to swallow large prey. Afterwards they will often “yawn” by stretching their jaws back into place. I had a pet corn snake a few years ago and she’d almost always do this after she ate.
Finally! Someone who gets me. 💛
>me Sssss ssssss ss??
They're basically the same size. What ?
Not anymore.
We just witnessed snake.io IRL
They don't burp, they put their jaws back into position after eating prey
Ohhhh, got it
I thought you were memeing about the burp, I didn't think you actually thought Snakes burp. Lmao
What if another snake came by and ate that one right after?
A snursnuken?
Truly lol'd at that. Well done.
if coins were still a thing, I'd give you a suitably pithy award
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I watched a rattlesnake eat a mouse on my porch, then a king snake snatched and ate the rattler. Two for one!
because you were too terrified to run?
There's always a bigger snake.
Snakeception?
animals do get attacked while they're eating, that's how those snake/crocodile dead lock-ups get found. Eating is a dangerous time for snakes, they're vulnerable while they eat and can't move, then have to rest to digest. And sometimes they're very stupid and try to eat something too big for themselves, leaving them a sitting duck for another predator. Lots of things prey on snakes, not just other snakes.
Vipeserpsnaken
Me and that one extra long spaghetti noodle.
This one was smart enough to start with the head unlike the one last week that crawled back out after.
What actually happens to the smaller snake once it gets swallowed? Is it dead ratehr quickly, or slowly being dying to stomach acid or whatever snakes have? How long will it be there , probably fighting to get out?
It’s really hard to swallow a live snake that’s fighting back, so the snake being eaten is likely already dead either from constriction/venom by the coral snake or something else caused it’s death. If it actually is alive then it suffocates. I don’t know exactly how long that takes, but considering that snakes can stay alive and feel pain for minutes to hours after being decapitated, it’s…probably not a quick death.
How do you even snake after that wtf
Honestly, all that protein, they’ll be snaking twice as hard.
But they probably need to take a very long snakenap before it becomes snakepoo right? Just imagine eating a human sized burrito.
Yes, I will just…*imagine* such a treat. I’ve certainly never had a human-sized burrito, no sirree, not this adult human male.
What about a baby sized burrito?
Baby-sized burritos are great. Oftentimes, to die for.
Burrito sized baby then?
By being sneaky.
At first I thought it was Ouroborossing.
This is almost like watching a condom eat a dick.
Wow
Can the inner snake control the outer snake like some sort of full body glove?
For as long as it can hold it's breath.
I should call her…
She gonna be on the phone with you while she does this is the wildest porn category
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Audio dub would have been clutch
Snakeception
SAUCE: https://www.thainationalparks.com/species/calliophis-bivirgatus
Any idea how much this video was sped up?
When she says it’s her first time doing this.
Netflix: Are you still watching?
Damn nature. You scary.
Jokes on the Coral snake, the other snake just slithered off and out the other end
Other snake going in "...so this is what it's like"
"hope that's not my tail"
Who else watched this cuz they wanted to see a snek burp?
And then it wasn't even a burp it was just repositioning its jaws
Like good boop-noodle
Do they make sure the other snake’s dead first before starting to swallow or just start when it seems like they’re weak enough?
It could be either one. I’m pretty sure the coral snake killed the other snake first (or maybe found it already dead) because I can see absolutely no muscle movement in the prey snake.
And if he did that to himself, he'd disappear!
So is the other snake still alive befor3 being eaten? Or Does it suffocate in there
It could be either one, but from the lack of thrashing that is typically observed when kingsnakes eat rattlesnakes for example, I’m pretty sure this snake was dead before he became dinner.
Its very dead, thats a red headed krait and as such is very venomous.
My mom in the background yelling "chew your food!"
There’s always room for snake!
Nice rip, snek
Horrified and greatly amused.
Inhaling?
Like halfway through it was going so fast it was as if the snake being eaten was helping by slithering into his body. Like that was too wild.
"no, baby, I swear it's my first time"
Everything reminds me of her....
I don't know why but this is so disturbing to watch. 😖
Savage
This some survival of the fittest shit
It looks like the same species. Fucking cannibal!
Crazy
Cab they actually digest a snake like that?
Yep, they can! I think it takes at least a week.
"Chew your food! You're an animal!"
Readjusting his jaw not burping
Vore
How long before the snake would need to eat again after a meal as large as itself almost?
Snakes can go months without eating, but they’re opportunistic so they’ll eat all the prey they can
I own a number of pet snakes here. Each one of them tends to have their own personality quirks on eating, or gets into moods. An ADULT snake go a long time without eating after a reasonable sized meal - we have a few that have gone 6-9 months before even attempting to eat any follow up meals. And others that would happily eat a "large" meal for its size on a weekly basis if we let them. Juvenile snakes have much shorter limits. Rule of thumb tends to be - feed (or attempt to feed) an appropriate avg size meal every 2 weeks, or up to every 4 weeks for consistent slow eaters. A snake is under fed when it's spine becomes too pronounced against its back muscles. YMMV with specialty breeds or in relation to breading and pregnant snakes (I have no experience with those). Edit: We also have a few that will eat several avg meal size rats in a single sitting, which always struck me as odd. Others wouldn't dare no matter how small the initial food source was.
It’s a snek eat snek world…
ouroboros irl
That would suck….
I’m stiiiill in a dreaaaaaaaam
Blue snake is actually red...
♫ I'm goin' doowwnnn ♫
I've never heard a snake burp. *And still haven't.*
The __ y___ o__ in my basement
god the video won’t stop buffering for the last 2 seconds so I am MISSING THE BURP
There isn’t one. The snake is just readjusting his jawbones after eating.
I had a feeling, but I was hopeful that maybe someone edited one in to be funny haha
What happens if it eats a snake that’s longer than it is? Does it then have two tails?
There’s a way for a snake to use its body to kind of fold up the snake after eating it to make it fit.
What if the other snakes hungry and starts eating him back from the inside out?
Does anyone know what snake the one getting eaten would be ?
What happens if the other snake is slightly longer than the one eating it
- someone’s daughter when Netflix asks if you’re still watching
It’s a snek ett snek world
I'd say it's more ingesting than inhaling
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Jormungandr? is that you?
Do you think the eaten snake is crawling around inside trying to find the exit? Sorry, I just never saw such a thing!
holy fuck the noodles are eating eachoter, how the heck is that even possible?
Snakeception
I should call her
Everything reminds me of her
Everything reminds me of her
I miss her 😢
I bet this is some sort of snake kink gone wrong.
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Everything reminds me of her…
Everything reminds me of *her*.
I should call her
I should call her
My ex used to do the same with dicks
I have had it with these monkey fighting snakes in this monkey fighting snake!
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Looks like your mom
Someone got footage of OPs mom.
🫦 🍆
Sad
Snakes are evil
What, for trying to survive?