Eat snakes by compressing prey

How can snakes eat all prey bigger than it? It is still a mystery, at least until recently. Some scientists have tried to find the answer to this mystery.

That's Kate Jackson and a colleague at the University of Toronto. They closely observed the snake snakes (scientific name: Lampropeltis getulas) when they swallowed corn snakes (scientific name: Elaphe guttata ), with a length approximately equal to them. Called corn snakes because they have spots on the abdomen, and often hide in corn fields to hunt, mainly rodents.

Princess snakes after tightening and knocking down their prey, they widened their jaws, and clutched their upper jaws into their prey and swallowed slowly. In order to swallow the prey, the snake snake has to compress the resurrected bones and allow its body to stretch vertically.

Jaw of Snake (Photo: Livescience)

And, the snake god used the force of the body to compress the prey of the prey like it was playing an acrobat. Even if the head of the prey is bigger than the snake's belly, they can still squeeze it to fit their stomach.

However, most princess snakes only digest part of the prey. The rest of them vomited. There are cases where the snake snake is credited with digesting his entire meal, and the process takes . 15 days!

Lampropeltis snake getula nigritus (Photo: kingsnake.com)

Manh Duc