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Kerby...
at Mon Jul 11 10:41:59 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Kerby... ]
**Wow, Didn't realize Pits ate Rattlesnakes**
In the early 1990's I found this Arizona Black rattlesnake (Crotalus cerberus) den. I went to it every spring, then one year (mid 1990's) I noticed a couple of Sonoran Gopher snakes at the den, coiled up right next to the AZ Blacks. But I noticed one of the smaller gopher snakes was really FAT! So I caught it and realized that there was NO WAY that the small gopher snake could have eaten a huge pack rat......so I took the gopher snake home. A few days later it took a dump.....but there was still a huge lump in it. A copuple of days later it regurgitated a rattlesnake head and about 6 inches of neck, a Arizona Black rattlesnake that would have been longer than the gopher snake.
So yes, gopher snakes can and do eat rattlesnakes.

Kerby... ----- Life is like a bunch of fish in an aquarium....we all get along (bonding) until I want to eat you....and I do.


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