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He thinks he is starving.

Np

They seem to have the best appetites in the spring. He is just making sure his food does not go anywhere while he eats the first course.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

I agree, I use this time to pack some weight and size on females that just barely hit my breeding standards

Does the snake move on to the second mouse after finishing off the first?

I ask simply because the photo calls to mind a question about feeding I recently fielded in the milk snake forum. My answer/opinions/believes left themselves open to considerable debate even imo (luckily that did not happen) but wishing to keep my answer short I really didn't get into details for my opinion.

Interesting photo btw, don't recall ever seeing a snake working two prey items at the same time. Thanks for sharing it.

Gerry

Today when I fed my bull snakes they pressed the extra hoppers against the sides of their feeding tubs and also constricted some of them between their coils while eating them one at a time. My kings will constrict one while eating another, too. In the wild they would want to forestall any escapees upon finding a nest of rodents.
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

mine's done that and does go on to eat the second.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

I suspect it is a common occurrence, I just happened to have my cell phone handy to take the picture.

>>I suspect it is a common occurrence, I just happened to have my cell phone handy to take the picture.

and it was a neat4 picture
What cell do you use? i'm surprised the cameras have gotten that good in them.
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We wouldn't have 6 and a half billion people if you had to be beautiful to get laid.
6.6 African House snakes
3.2 reticulated pythons
.1 corn snake
4.2 Florida Kings
1.2 speckled kings
1.2 ball pythons
0.0.1 Argentine boa

Motorola Atrix. I was very surprised myself at the quality. It has a macro setting (which I used) I think it has replaced my Sony I can upload to the internet without using my computer so that is a big plus. It also has a widescreen setting to view on tvs

Yes, he started eating the second before he got the first one all the way down.

I had a rat snake years ago that would hold one against the tank wall while he ate the other. It did not matter it was F/T.

I currently have a few that do this regularly and I feed F/T. Some of these have never seen live food yet still do this.

Had a big female D.c.couperi back in the day that would use loops of her body to press prey items against the side of her enclosure. It was not uncommon to see one in her mouth and as many as 4 more in this way.

Given 100's if not 1000's of years of evolution of species we keep. Their propensity to investigate rodent burrows where they may find several rodents. To maximize the meal the ones that do this would be the more robust when it comes to breeding. They pass on this trait while the ones that don't may have much smaller clutches if they breed at all or produce viable eggs/sperm.

Survival of the fittest.
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BigT
There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. The ignorant can be taught, stupidity is beyond our control.
1.2 P. m. melanoleucus B/W N. J. Northern Pines
1.2 P. d. deppei Mexican Pines
2.2 P. l. lineaticollis Linis or Lined Pines
1.2 P. m. lodingi Black Pines
0.3 P. c. sayi red bulls
1.1 Drymarchon melenurus Blacktail Cribo
1.2 D. corais Yellowtail Cribos
1.2 M. s. cheynei Jungle Carpet
2.6 L. p. pyromelana Arizona Mt. Kings
1.1 L. g. californiae B/W Cali kings
0.0.3 M. f. flagellum Eastern Coachwhips
1.2 G. m. bottegoi Western Plated lizards

Mine do that a lot with my hand and a mouse. I sometimes think they believe it's part of the same one?
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com

When they get something they really want to eat they will use any means to grasp and keep it in their possession!

A universal feeding response! LOL!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

Glad Mr. Khaman had his cell phone handy to photograph a behavior that is apparently commonly observed but seldom documented. Perhaps with digital cameras seemingly being a "must have" item these days more interesting photos of normal snake behavior, such as Khaman's, will be posted for our viewing pleasure.

Gerry

Daequix posted this in another forum site a couple of years ago. Her baby kingsnake Domino:


I knew I had this data around somewhere! LOL!
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.

a serious case of the munchies... I'll have to keep that photo stashed away somewhere as well

Gerry

That's a cool pic!
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King Snakes! Who can make a better mouse trap?
J Sierra

My Site > www.Sierrasnakes.com