this. If he sees this maybe he'll post that pic again.

I believe it was he that had posted pics of one baby boa constrictor having eaten another.

If I remember correctly, they were 2 babies he had produced and housed together, and it wasn't a feeding accident, meaning, during feeding.

To ad to the other post, 'feeding response' accidents can happen at anytime.

Boas are naturally solitary animals, and being used to being alone, that night she may have just seen a movement that seemed out of the norm, and reacted... struck and wrapped.

The fact that the male likely struggled gave the female more of that 'feeding response', making it seem more like her prey was struggling, giving her more reason to 'finish the job', so to speak.

At this point, I guess you can just be on the lookout for large, strange poop! 8)


Hope she makes it ok! (literally and figuratively...lol 8)

Take care, Joe
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Thanks and take care - Joe Rollo
'Tis not the stongest of the species that will eventually survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change' Charles Darwin

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