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Natural feeding response

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Posted by: FR at Mon Apr 13 16:48:51 2009   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by FR ]  
   

Just a report from today. I was on my way to the monitor building and heard a ruckess. A large adult male cottontail rabbit was flipping and spinning madly. I noticed that there was a snake attacked to its side(hahahahahahahaha). The rabbit got loose and much to my surprise, the rabbit did not run off, but circle the pallet that the snake was under(and anchored too during the fight)



I couldn't tell if it as a gophersnake or a rattlesnake, so I froze and waited to see what will happen. After the rabbit left, I looked under the pallet and saw a aprox 4foot gophersnake.



This is typical of what we see, they strike first and ask questions latter. It did look like that snake was going to get twisted in two.



These types of events always make we think about why so many captive snakes do not have this type of feeding response. Cheers

   

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