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Snakes disembowel toads and feast on the living animal’s organs one by one – Live Science

This gruesome behavior was previously unknown in snakes.

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Pity the toads
that encounter Asian kukri snakes in Thailand. These snakes use enlarged, knifelike teeth in their upper jaws to slash and disembowel toad prey, plunging their heads into the abdominal cavities and feasting on the organs one at a time while the toads are still alive, leaving the rest of the corpse untouched.
While you’re recovering from the horror of that sentence, “perhaps you’d be pleased to know that kukri snakes are, thankfully, harmless to humans,” amateur herpetologist an…

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