When it involves consuming an enormous, filling meal, the Gans’ egg-eating snake guidelines.
The African snakes solely develop to about 3 toes lengthy, however for his or her measurement they’ll outmatch a a lot bigger Burmese python, in relation to what they eat.
Using its stretchy pores and skin between its jawbones, the snake can eat eggs a lot bigger than its head.
After swallowing the eggs complete, the snake makes use of its backbone to crack the shell. The gooey egg contents are swallowed whereas the snake vomits up the damaged egg shell.
Burmese pythons can eat a lot greater prey, comparable to deer weighing 70 kilos and 100-pound alligators. They develop to 23 toes lengthy and are as huge round as a phone pole. But in relation to their measurement, pythons can’t compete with the Gans’ egg-eating snake. If they have been the identical measurement, the Gans’ might eat prey twice the scale of a python.
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Biologist Bruce Jayne on the University of Cincinnati found the egg-eating snakes.
“People focus on big snakes eating big things, but if you correct for their size, these little guys are pretty scary,” he stated.
Gans’ egg-eater has no tooth to get in the best way when it swallows massive eggs, making it fairly innocent. Even so, the snake will rub its scales collectively to make a hissing sound and strike at predators to scare them away.
“It’s comical because it’s all bluff,” Jayne stated. “They’re toothless wonders.”
— Brett French, Gazette Outdoors editor
