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chowing down !

Echols Co., GA Eastern eating a Eastern Diamondback Rattler (pic Kevin Enge)

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A Cornsnake pics the wrong area to hang out. S.C (Pic by Brian Robards)

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A Cottonmouth is eventually eaten by a Eastern in S.Carolina (pic by Jason Penney)

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Gartersnakes are a favorite food item as well. (photo by Zig Leszcynski)

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I love to see pics of snakes eating other snakes, truly awesome.
Michael
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Nice Pics. . . .Right on time, lol!!! I just fed my 4.5' male NC. locale a 3 foot copperhead yesterday and it was quite interesting! The copperhead actually bit the Kingsnake in the face first. The Kingsnake then yanked back with the copperhead attached to its' face and I thought that the Kingsnake was too startled to eat at then, BUT - he yanked back threw its' coils around the copperhead and ate his ass-ets after being dazed for aprox 10 minutes from the venom in its' face. It was intersting to see that the venom DID have a (limited) effect on the Kingsnake because he held his head sideways (after the copperhead let go) and appeared to be in some discomfort for about ten minutes. After that, he turned his head back upright, waited for all life to pass from the constricted copperhead and then ate him like nothing ever happened!!! In my 30 plus years of herping I have never seen a King get nailed in the face like that and wondered if that was enough to ruin his appetite - BUT it wasn't!!! CAUSE EASTERN KINGS KICK ASS-ETS!!! thanks for reading.

One FAT happy Kingsnake rests peacefully today (and doing great)!!!

Zee

Zee

Maybe it was the bite and not the Venom that dazed the king kinda like getting hit in the head. If the Fangs sunk in a bit Im sure they would daze him venom or not. Easterns of all the King subs have the highest degree of immunity to viper venoms thats why I wonder if the venom actually bugged him, but maybe it was the venom ????

Keith
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Here is a link to some photos that I posted a while back on here, that some of you may have already seen. I think Keith has seen this before. This is an encounter with a Cal. King or Desert X Cal. king intergrade taking down a coachwhip that's around 3 times the size of the king. This is just amazing. Look at figrure 1. which shows a good photo of the size difference between the two snakes.

Steve
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww man!
Wonder if that king managed to kill that whip? I'm betting yes...and I also bet that the greedy little bugger spent quite a few hours attempting to eat that big old snake only to end up spitting out what he'd already swallowed and going sulkily on his way, lol.
Wish the author had dug up that damn hole!
~Roo
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"Klaatu...Verata...Nicht--cough, cough, cough!"

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eating an indigo?!?! the woman in this particular photo apparently has no idea of the danger she is in! I have exhaustively searched the eastern king resource page for this pic but cannot locate it. Has anyone else seen this pic?
lol,
dave

Now you said it. The drymarchon powers will be hearing this soon.

But you probably just posted the best ones
Here is one of a eastern king eating a worm snake.....

Then there is this one by John White of one constricting a garter snake, it didn't eat it, but it would've if John didn't break it up.

Michael
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Yeah I was gonna post those but I forgot ! That Garter vs Eastern pic by John is one of my favorite pics of all time. I cant get enough John White pics on my site as far as Im concerned. I have a couple new ones to add to my site as well.

Keith
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ahha Those are some awsome pics

Actually feeding a kingsnake a live copper head is NOT a good idea. King snakes CAN die from a bite to the head from rattle snakes but I am not all that sure about copper heads. They can also die if the bite is to close to their hearts. For the most part they can with stand the venom but a direct envenomation to the heart or brain and the king could die. I would check the bite to make sure it doesn't get infected. I would also not recommend feeding any WC snake to a CB king snake. Parasites from the copper head would infect your snake.