31 January 2009

Snake eats rattlesnake


From a sequence of seven photos; the fifth shows the rattles on the victim. Looks like a black snake, though one comment suggested it is an "Eastern indigo."

Here's another sequence of photos from NSW in which a brown snake was swallowed by a red belly black snake, then turned around inside the black snake and slithered back out the mouth to freedom!

Almost an ouroboros - but not quite.

Addendum: Anonymous provided the following info: "It is a Texas Indigo and a Western Diamondback. The pictures were taken on the King Ranch in South Texas."

2 comments:

  1. Not Australia mate, no rattlesnakes here!

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  2. It is a Texas Indigo and a Western Diamondback. The pictures were taken on the King Ranch in South Texas.

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