>>Anybody ever experience this?
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What you're describing seems to me to be a sort of SFE (stupid feeding error). Where a hungry boa grabs another because there has been food in or near recently and then one gets eaten. I'm not sure that's exactly cannibalism.
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Back in the '70s I would make trips to the Miami importers and it was not uncommon too see 2000 baby Colombian boas in one cage.. many would be big and fat from eating another boa. Under those crowded conditions this would normally result in the boa dying. I don't think that under less stressful conditions it would be as dangerous to the health of the eater..
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We do see these incidents reported, even sometiimes with larger Boas, but I don't think it's a 'natural' thing or that boas include other boas or snakes in their normal diet. Best plan is to keep them seperated.
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Good luck.

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