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DMong
at Sun Mar 14 18:49:48 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Yeah,....snake's aren't really aware of the size of the prey item(s) they eat. They just try their best, and if they can't after killing it and trying, they just give up like you said. And of course sometimes they just BARELY manage to get it down. And of course sometimes regurgitating very large prey even when they find suitable warm temps to try to do so.
Their tiny brains just ain't programmed for thinking or reasoning, if the chemical cue's they pick-up out of the air tells them that is suitable prey, then it IS to them until they finally figure out they can't consume it.
I have always told people......."snake's are not very smart, they just don't give up easily". Like when it takes a snake fifteen minutes to locate the head of a mouse it just killed seconds before, then wandering all over every inch of the cage trying to find it when it was always in the coils right next to their head..LOL!
They are some amazingly simple creatures, and I guess that is a big part of why I have always found them so interesting 
~Doug ----- "a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing" 
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