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Like most snakes, king snakes' mouths unhinge very wide. They can open their mouth comparitively as far as you can move your thumb away from your pointer finger. Then, the snake can eat anything that can fit in it's mouth.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 8y agoRattlesnakes are eaten by kingsnakes. Not all rattlers are too large, after all, they start life small, and some adult species are not too large for a kingsnake. The kingsnake is a constrictor, and pins the rattler to the ground where it is constricted and swallowed.
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∙ 13y agoKingsnakes will eat other snakes simply for a meal. They don't eat rattle snakes for any different reason than they would other snakes.
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∙ 7y agoIt was built that way.
Its jaw and body were made to consume other snakes and large prey.
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∙ 8y agoNo, but kingsnakes will eat rattlesnakes.
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What is king snakes prey?
Rattle snakes are their prey.
How does a snake eat?
Snakes eat their food whole. Usually head first. The lower jaw on snakes can unhinge enabling the snake to eat much larger prey than their head. The snakes body muscles then push the meal down inside the snakes stomach.
How do king cobras eat there prey?
They swallow it whole, head first. All snakes are carnivorous. With venomous snakes such as cobra the digestive process is started as soon as the venom is injected.
Can a snake eat by unhinging its lower jawbones?
Yes. This is how most snakes are able to eat prey several times larger than the snake's head.
How do snakes eat their food like a big prey?
Snakes can consume a meal that is larger than their mouths because their jaws are loosely jointed, and their upper and lower jaws can move independently. Then after the snake will move its head back and forth to come to prey into its stomach.
Is snakes prey to any animal?
A Snake Gulper The king cobra feeds on "other" snakes.
What does a cobra eat?
They like a mixture of rodents and birds and other snakes (they are ophiophagous like king snakes) Small animals like rodents and other small reptiles, some larger prey too but rarely.
How do stoke sea snakes eat their prey?
The same way as other snakes do - head first and whole.
Are king snakes venomous or poisons?
Nope - King snakes are constrictors. They subdue their prey by squeezing the victim's body so tightly that it cannot breathe in.
Is a King cobra a producer?
All snakes are consumers. They hunt prey.
When snakes eat prey does the prey die instantly?
in the UK it is illegal to feed snakes live prey but people do !! if you have a larger snake and do feed it live prey some will constrict until the prey is dead but other will eat it alive and it will still be chirping or making a noise as it passes down the snakes body until it suffocates !you can view snakes eating live prey (rabbits ,birds ,chickens) on youtube
What is an strange fact about king cobra?
They are not the most lethal snake species, that title belongs to the inland taipan. King cobras can reach ten feet in length.
