How does non-poisonous snakes kill there prey?
Pythons and boas are the most
well known of the snake species that use constriction as a method to kill their
prey. This is a very powerful method used by the non-poisonous snakes
like anaconda. Constrictors typically prey on large animals that can cause
serious injury to the snake if they are not first incapacitated. The method
used by these snakes is to tighten their body around the prey, resulting in
suffocation – they do not crush their prey. The snake typically bites the prey
to hold on as he quickly wraps his body and tightly coils around the prey. Each
time the victim exhales a breath the snake tightens, preventing the animal from
inhaling more air. Means the victim has a feeling that as and when he breaths
out the coil of the snake becomes even more tight preventing the prey to breathe
again. Without an air supply, the prey rapidly becomes unconscious and usually
dies. The snake then inject the prey.
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