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Both - they prey on animals such as rodents and small animals for food - and they are preyed on by animals such as Birds of Prey and large carnivores.

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Both. Snakes are predators but are also preyed on by other animals, even other snakes.

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Certainly. Other snakes, birds of prey, mongoose and man are all examples of animals that hunt, kill and eat snakes.

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Both, as they are the same thing.

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