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01-26-14, 12:58 PM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
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Lol show the Beardie pic to the next person asking 'is my prey size alright?' Heh heh... definitely makes me not worry about my rat size so much hahaha
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Good point. We should sticky that picture in the morelia spilota section haha. "Yes your prey size is fine!"
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01-27-14, 01:13 AM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
This one was from Flickr. African rock python eating a Thompson's gazelle.
Python sebae on Fotopedia
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01-27-14, 11:01 AM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
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Amazing. I love giant constrictors.
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01-27-14, 11:53 AM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
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Great pic! Let's see more
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01-28-14, 09:15 PM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
Here's a common garter eating a fence lizard.
Table Mountain Wildflower Report April 6, 2012 | Natural History Wanderings
What I believe is a Bolivian boa constrictor (BCA) eating some sort of bird.
Snake by fabiano-bastos on deviantART
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01-28-14, 09:21 PM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
Oh man, i sure hope that Boa doesn't eat any of those icky leaves and dirt when he finally knocks back that disgusting, disease-ridden bird.... hopefully the substrate was baked first!!! 
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01-28-14, 09:23 PM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
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Oh man, i sure hope that Boa doesn't eat any of those icky leaves and dirt when he finally knocks back that disgusting, disease-ridden bird.... hopefully the substrate was baked first!!! |
I heard the snake got impacted after that photo.
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01-28-14, 09:32 PM
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Re: Carpet python eats bearded dragon
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Pic was not taken in the wild, but interesting nonetheless.
Olive python eating a diamond
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Wow I hate to say this one kinda bums me out. Such a beautiful diamond. Wonder how this happened and if it was intentional.
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01-28-14, 09:35 PM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
Wow bigsnakegirl great shots.
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01-28-14, 09:38 PM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
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Wow bigsnakegirl great shots.
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Thanks! I was just looking around on Google for the garter photo, and the boa shot has been in my da favorites for awhile now. I had to really look for it. lol
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02-14-14, 12:49 AM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
I found another one on DA. A European/common adder eating a frog.
20080702-175948.jpg by SveinSkogen on deviantART
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02-14-14, 08:49 AM
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Re: Carpet python eats bearded dragon
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Originally Posted by Mikoh4792
Was probably a close call for the snake. I'd imagine a monitor that big could just have easily killed the blackhead.
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Funny story about those series of pictures with the BHP.
First the monitor was a road kill
Second, the BHPs regurgitated the monitor about 30 minutes... after spending 5 hours eating it. Haha.
I know the bloke who took some of the series of pictures.
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02-14-14, 08:59 AM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
Here's a question none of you are asking when making smart comments about "prey size".
How much fat content is on these "wild prey items" as opposed to "captive prey items"?
And, is that constant 70% more fat source good or bad over time for your captive animal?
Didn't someone ask recently why we don't see pictures of animals in people collection that are over 10 years old very often? You know the reason right?
Overfeeding.
But that's OK....go ahead and shorten your snakes life span by half so you can see a "bulge". Haha
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02-14-14, 09:04 AM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
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Originally Posted by Starbuck
Oh man, i sure hope that Boa doesn't eat any of those icky leaves and dirt when he finally knocks back that disgusting, disease-ridden bird.... hopefully the substrate was baked first!!! |
Haha. I love it when people get bent out of shape because their snake ate substrate.
Here's a perfect example of why it's not that big of a deal. Of course, the stuff you buy is treated with all types of crap that can't be good but, they never get enough of it in a cage to harm them.
This boa is easily going to take over a handful of leaves down with that fowl. Haha.
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02-14-14, 10:01 AM
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Re: Snakes Eating In The Wild Thread
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Lol show the Beardie pic to the next person asking 'is my prey size alright?' Heh heh... definitely makes me not worry about my rat size so much hahaha
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This is an interesting comment.
And I've often wondered why keepers compare wild prey diet nutrition to captive prey nutrition in relation to "size".
In reality, that "big" breaded has about as much fat content as a weaned mouse. So, a rat of equal size to that breaded has at least 25 times the amount of fat content. The bearded would be much easier to break down in the system.
Fat is the toughest to break down and cause the most health issues with reptiles.
25 times the fat content is an oversized meal. No matter how you look at it.
When I say "size" I emphases everything about the prey, fat content, protein content, etc....not just the actual size of the prey.
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