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I need to know what is the largest Prey item ever consumed by a snake.. not necessarily the ones represented by this perticular forum but by body weight proportions.. I think its 110% ie the prey was 110% bigger then the snake and succefully eaten and digested... can anyone give me COLD HARD NUMBERS with a source..
I owuld really appreciate it

I do not have the answer for you, but you could go to their website. I am not so sure you would find something like that though. On the other hand, interesting question.
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Brian Oakley
Phoenix, Arizona
BrianOakley@cox.net

I have a book with an example of a snake eating prey that size (didn't say anything about it being a RECORD) but it would take me a while to dig it up. I know the snake was a viper.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

it was by a juvenile bothrops from brazil. Harry Greene at Cornell authored the paper and I'm sure there is a reference to it in his book, "Snakes, the Evolution of Mystery in Nature."

hope that helps,
gabriel

That book mentions a 23g Hog-nosed pitviper(Porthidium nasutum) that ate a 29g Spiny Pocket Mouse (Neteromys desmarestianus), equalling 129% of its own body weight.
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Peter: It's OK, I'll handle it. I read a book about something like this.
Brian: Are you sure it was a book? Are you sure it wasn't NOTHING?

In the record I'm thinking of, the prey item was a cnemidophorus...but I'll ask Harry (I'm an ex student).

gg