Pilot Black Snake Suffocates Its Prey

The Pilot Black Snake’s nest is sometimes located near water where small animals live or come to drink.

Snakes are carnivorous.

Rodents such as rats and mice form a large part of their diet.

Snakes strikes at moving objects.

Having secured its prey, the black snakes’ squeezes it to death before eating it. The body is coiled around the prey, tightening until respirations stops and suffocation occurs.

Food is always swallowed whole and head first.

A highly mobile jaw permits the snake to swallow food larger than its normal mouth size.

Inside the mouth, backward curving teeth pull the food down the throat, as the jaws works separately.

This makes it appear as if the snake repulling itself around its food. A large meal make keep the snake alive for weeks.


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