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RE: Cannabalism in Snakes

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Posted by: Fortiterinre at Sat Jul 1 15:19:00 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Fortiterinre ]  
   

I don't know if you distinguish between ophiophagous snakes that eat other snakes and cannibalistic snakes that eat their own species, but elapids like king cobras, kraits and coral snakes are ophiophagous and can be cannibalistic if they encounter a smaller, consumable member of the ame species. Kingsnakes are also both ophiophagous and cannibalistic--I actually can't think of a single ophiophagous snake that wouldn't be cannibalistic if the opportunity presented itself.


   

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