snake eating snake?

Question

What if a snake eats another snake and then finds that its prey is longer than itself.

Answer 1

The body of the snake is quite capable of swallowing a larger prey and the muscles will compact the victim

Answer 2

Many snakes are snake eaters, King snakes Milk snakes, and of course, the king of all snake eaters, the King cobra. Actually, nothing else is easier for a snake to swallow than another snake. As was stated above, snakes are very muscular and compact the prey they ingest quite easily. Unless the dead snake is extremely large & the swallower is very small, it will go down the hatch. If it is way too large, the swallower will regurgitate it.

Answer 3

To correct an earlier response, some snakes do prey on other snakes and eat them. A well know snake, the king snake (Lampropeltis getulus) will go after rattlesnakes. There are numerous other species that have been documented to eat other snake species if the opportunity arises.

Answer 4

Well.. snakes to eat snakes. Found an interesting picture too!
http://www3.flickr.com/photos/krisandapril/sets/1534446/

To answer your question, if a snake can kill another, then it would find ways to eat it, even if the prey was longer than itself.

Answer 5

mostly likey the snake will throw it up and nto it it and the one that wrote snakes to donot eat snakes yes they do

Answer 6

Good question, is that posible? maybe it will leave till it digests it a bit then eat the rest later.

Answer 7

lol... it would regurgitate it... though i think there's some rule where snakes know not to try and eat something bigger than it can...

Answer 8

body length is not relative to stomach length or capacity for food. it will fit or it will puke it back out.

Answer 9

that wud be funny

Answer 10

it will fit