Gail's garter - the snake kind silly.

[Invisible Snake]

Why would the bigger one die?

To be honest I'm really not sure, but I think it's because a garter snakes stomach isn't designed for digesting snakes.

It also happens with boas, pythons and corn snakes.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

To be honest I'm really not sure, but I think it's because a garter snakes stomach isn't designed for digesting snakes.

You should tell that to vagrans.Snakes are easily digested because of they are basically all muscle and protein is easily digested.When a snake dies after eating another snake it's usually because it's to big and struggles causing internal hemorrhaging.

[ConcinusMan]

You should tell that to vagrans.Snakes are easily digested because of they are basically all muscle and protein is easily digested.When a snake dies after eating another snake it's usually because it's to big and struggles causing internal hemorrhaging.

Keratin, which is a protein, is not digested easily, if at all. That includes claws/our fingernails, hair, horns, feathers, and that layer of skin that your snake sheds off periodically. It is similar to chitin, (insect exoskeleton) which also cannot be digested.

And I've seen pythons die when their owners fed them dead meals that were too large. Some of them even "exploded" so to speak. If a meal cannot be digested in a timely manner, it begins to ferment from the inside, then gas can build up so fast that the snake doesn't have time to vomit, (they can't just burp out gas like we do) so the snake simply explodes from the gas pressure. This is why I don't like to stuff babies with oversized meals.