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Horrified Scientists Watch Snakes Feasting on the Organs of Living Toads – Gizmodo Australia
Biologists in Thailand have documented a behaviour never seen before in snakes, in which the limbless reptiles eviscerated and consumed the organs of living toa…
Biologists in Thailand have documented a behaviour never seen before in snakes, in which the limbless reptiles eviscerated and consumed the organs of living toads.
Snakes, as a general rule, swallow their prey whole, but as new research published in the science journal Herpetozoa points out, the small-banded kukri snake of Thailand is an exception.
Using their specialised front teeth, the kukri snakes (Oligodon fasciolatus) tear a hole through the bellies of large poisonous toads, then insert…
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