I fed my big wandering girl a small mouse today. I have seen them occasionally wrap a coil around a mouse....but this time she wrapped and squeezed!! got a couple awesome pics.
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09-04-2012, 07:55 PM #1Mr Thamnophis
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09-04-2012, 07:59 PM #2"Preparing For Fourth shed"
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Was it alive?
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09-04-2012, 08:01 PM #3Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Wow that's amazing! Someone should do an article on how some wanderings coil and constrict their food items.
Was the mouse being fed alive or f/t?
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09-04-2012, 08:06 PM #4Mr Thamnophis
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Re: Interesting behavior....
it was a live mouse, in the lower pic you can see she had a tight grip on the mouse... he was pretty much unconscious when she moved and started eating him. just a little leg twitching.
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09-04-2012, 09:25 PM #5"Fourth shed, A Success"
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That's really neat! So this isn't a normal behavior when eating live mice? How do they typically dispatch of live mice?
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09-05-2012, 03:14 AM #6Forum Moderator
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Re: Interesting behavior....
Excellent pictures.
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09-05-2012, 04:53 AM #7Dutch, bold and Thamnophis-crazy
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Looks to me this is a Pantherophis elegans
Good observation and also good pics. One learns every day something new.It is always advisable to be a loser if you cannot become a winner.
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09-05-2012, 05:57 AM #8Thamnophis houstonius
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Re: Interesting behavior....
Awesome pics and cool information!
~* Emily *~
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09-05-2012, 10:14 AM #9T.s. affectionado
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Re: Interesting behavior....
She was pretending to be a boa...lol. I have had my garters constrict around my hands, but I've never seen them attempt it with food. Very cool!
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09-05-2012, 02:50 PM #10It's all about the Fuzzies
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Re: Interesting behavior....
Great pics! I've only seen this with younger snakes who are struggling (or think they're struggling lol) with a food item... cool stuff.
TamiOh. Because you know, it seems to me that, aside
from being a little mentally ill, she's pretty normal.
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