Tracking Snake?

2lumpy

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Question for our Ophidiologist friends.

Will a Blow Snake track and kill a Rattle Snake?

I've been told the blow snake is a constrictor and will kill rattle snakes but..... do they track them down?

I think i just saw one following a good sized rattle snake.......... it was 12 hours behind and hustling right along.

DC
 
hmmmm....a blow snake is a gopher snake. They do not eat rattle snakes. A king snake will but don't have the ability to track them.

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After a little google tracking......... Your right homer. Just a coinsidence I suppose.


Have a fun trip to the Lake!

DC
 
Eel, you're a bonified son of a b!tch!!!! :)

I don't darn even open that video. I hate am ALL snakes.......equally!

DC
 
DC, I just got back from Namibia at the end of June and was lucky enough to see a black mamba and 2 puff adders while we were there. I say lucky because I have had a ton of experience with snakes through breeding, husbandry, etc. They fascinate me. The black mamba was easily the fastest snake I have ever seen. The amount of ground it covered and how fast it got into a tree before we even stopped the vehicle was astounding. I've seen them in zoos but you truly don't get the sense of a snakes temperament from seeing them in an enclosure. Puff adders are what I consider my closest relative. Slow and chunky.

I hope you enjoy your trip as much as we did. That was my first trip to Africa and I have already decided I am going back.
 
Dak, don't go back,.. you will contract "the fever" and want to back ..again and again and again. But thats a good thing!

from the "Heartland of wyoming"
 
Gopher snakes are mammalian specialists. They likely won't pass up a nice lizard, but generally it's only mammals in their diet. If anyone ever did find a gopher snake eating a rattler, it is far more likely that the gopher came upon a rattlesnake as it was eating a rodent, latched onto the backside, and ate over the rattler consuming them both than it is that the gopher intentionally took the rattler. There is good reason you don't feed two pet snakes in the same cage. It happens.
 
Thanks Charina, interesting information. Appreciate your answer. Won't be feed any snakes but I'll sure pass along your advise to anyone that is planning to.

DC
 
I Think where people get Confused is confusing Blow with Bow!









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