2007-03-02 04:44:20 · 7 answers · asked by debbie 1 in Pets ➔ Reptiles
I didn't see it, but there's really no way to mistake a snake shedding its skin with throwing something up... Sounds like it probably got stressed out and regurgitated a meal. It's quite common for snakes to eat other snakes. Anything with the name "king" (king cobra, kingsnake, king brown etc...) got it because it is a snake eating specialist... I don't watch survivor and don't even know where they are or else I'd try to venture a guess as to what species it was.
2007-03-02 05:35:07 · answer #1 · answered by snake_girl85 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't watch "Survivor", but I've gathered that they're on Fiji, which is home to the Banded or Yellow-Lipped Sea Krait, a member of the Elapid(Cobra)family of snakes. Unlike real Sea Snakes, Sea Kraits can move around on land. I keep snakes, and I've watched hundreds of snakes shed their skins(and helped out quite a few through this process), and there is nothing gross about it, nor can it be mistaken for a snake "spewing out" something from its mouth. I DO know that eels are a favorite food of Banded Sea Kraits, though, and eels ARE slimy(plus, anything vomited up by anything else is pretty gross)and snake-like in shape, and all snakes will regurgitate their most-recent meal if they feel threatened or are injured, so my guess would be that the snake puked up an eel it had recently eaten.
2007-03-02 09:38:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That looked like something straight out of "Alien"!
My first thought was a shed also. But on TV, the outside was "normal" and the inside was whitish - when snakes shed, the outside becomes transparent & papery, while the "brighter" colored snake comes out. The skin is also shed inside-out, and I've never seen a newly-shed snake that looked "slimy". I checked and this holds true for sea snakes as well - and they shed every 2-6 weeks. (See website for photo & more info: http://homes.jcu.edu.au/~sci-bhl/sea_snake_biology.htm).
What came out looked more like a juvenile snake from the website above - but these are born in water. Plus, when they're born (live birth) they don't come out the mouth!
Only possibility left that I can come up with is that it ate something then regurgitated (threw it up - which snakes will do if disturbed too soon after eating).
Whatever it was, it looked gross!
EDIT to Snake Girl - they're in the Fiji Islands - it looked like a banded krait
2007-03-02 05:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by copperhead 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The snake was shedding its outter skin. Wasn't it gross.
2007-03-02 04:48:57 · answer #4 · answered by dtwladyhawk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That was just the snake shedding its skin but was that ever NASTY!!!!!
2007-03-02 04:52:18 · answer #5 · answered by puckbunny 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it was the snake shedding his skin...
2007-03-02 04:52:34 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer L 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
that was nasty!!!!!!!!!!!! i think it was a snake
2007-03-02 04:49:43 · answer #7 · answered by ♥Leo girl♥ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋