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How do snakes hunt for their prey?

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It depends on the kind of snake. Some snakes eat earthworms, slugs and small insects, others eat frogs and fish. Some eat small rodents such as mice and rats, some eat eggs, some can kill and eat animals as large as capybara and small deer.

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well they will first catch there food then they will squeeze there food tight and wait until it stops moving and gobble it up.

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They smell with their tongue and some hunt by heat signs.

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By using there heat sensers, sense they don't have good eye site

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snakes are good at hunting for its prey.they first catch the prey with their mouth and then injects venom into prey and after sometime it dies and then swallows the prey

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swallowing them alive

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birds and rodents

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Poisons it then eats it

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