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This was another Eastern hog rescued by a friend. Actually, this female and another male were found in the same area with throat wounds. Both were found in the same area as the mother that produced the baby in the post below. Sorry for the quality, but they are vid-caps from an analog camcorder. The snake pictured has been taken to a vet for treatment and will be released eventually.
My thoughts are it was most probably a raccoon maybe that attacked the snake while it was feigning death????
Top view of the head.
It's hard to say with the photo, but since I am assuming raccoons are chemosensory oriented, the defensive display of the hognose may not have been enough to deter the predator. Why it stopped there, who knows. Let us know what the doc says, and what treatment, if any is needed.
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Aldo Leopold (1938)
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That's an interesting pic. Wounds like that aren't often seen because the evidence is digested in short order. That's one lucky snake. Shane
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