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The diet of C. coccinea consists of lizards, small rodents, and eggs of lizards, turtles, and other snakes. Its large, very sharp posterior teeth are used to slash open large reptile eggs. The snake will either squeeze an egg to expel its contents or thrust its head into the egg to break it open. The smallest reptile eggs are eaten in their ...
Females of the prey species laid eggs with higher amounts of defensive alkaloids when egg predation was occurring. [28] Egg predation is an especially severe threat to colonies of ground-nesting seabirds. These have often selected offshore islands as nest sites, as the islands historically had fewer predators than the mainland.
The northern scarlet snake grows to 36–51 cm (14–20 inches) in total length (tail included). It is typically a gray or white base color, with 17–24 red blotches bordered by black running down the back. The black borders on the blotches often join on the lower sides of the snake forming a line down the length of the body.
It has the smallest clutch size (three to five) of any North American colubrid and the largest eggs, generally 5 in (13 cm) long by 2 in (5.1 cm) wide, of any snake in the United States. It also produces the largest hatchlings reported for any North American snake, ranging 18–22 in (46–56 cm) in total length, and up to 0.8 oz (23 g) in weight.
The hatching of the 107th tiny, wriggling snake at a Tennessee zoo marks the end of another year of efforts to save one of North America’s rarest snakes from extinction.
Ophiophagy (Greek: ὄφις + φαγία, lit. ' snake eating ') is a specialized form of feeding or alimentary behavior of animals which hunt and eat snakes.There are ophiophagous mammals (such as the skunks and the mongooses), birds (such as snake eagles, the secretarybird, and some hawks), lizards (such as the common collared lizard), and even other snakes, such as the Central and South ...
Photos taken at the airport provided by TSA show two slender pink snakes outside of a small camo-colored bag, after apparently being pulled from the passenger's pants before they were able to ...
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