So...what does a snake eating a squirrel have to do with a nasty winter? Snake's gotta eat too, you know.
I don’t know a lot about snakes, but don’t they hibernate in cold weather or find warm places to spend the winter? If so, it may feel the change in weather and it could be fattening itself up like a bear for the winter.
Snakes are odd. They don't hibernate in the sense of napping for a for months, that's a mammal thing. Reptiles go through brumation, which is similar but different. They stay awake the whole time, and they'll be active on the few days warm enough for them, but it's a period of strict lathargy. Alligators across the cold swamps do the same thing. It's a wild trait of nature.
Just a little snake humor. Makes me wonder though, could a snake that relatively small eat that squirrel in the first place?
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Thank you for not killing the snake....circle of life. If that snake was smart enough to catch that squirrel..good for him!!!
My dad USE to hang his prize champion canary cages on the back porch in the early summer mornings to let them get a little fresh air.
One time a snake had slithered up the rock wall of the house and got into the canary cage. Snake had a fine champion German roller canary for dinner that day. Lesson learned...snake set free.
My dad USE to hang his prize champion canary cages on the back porch in the early summer mornings to let them get a little fresh air.
One time a snake had slithered up the rock wall of the house and got into the canary cage. Snake had a fine champion German roller canary for dinner that day. Lesson learned...snake set free.
Brumation.
That's what I do most of the winter....I just didn't know the name for it.
Nice photo capture, to bad ya didn't have better equipment.. Thanks for sharing, I'm not afraid of snakes as most of the population is and rather like'em.. Snake phobia is pasted from parents to children and is a continuous cycle.. I've got pictures of the grand daughter in diapers holding a python and she has handled 100s of snakes,,, LOL, less fear of snakes that a 200 lb man.. Ain't that funny..
ROTFLMAO, your tooo funny bro.. No, anacondas are semi aquatic and are too thick and heavy to be found in trees.. Nice photo of a rat snake with a tree rat.. Thanks for bringing my attention to it though..
Why sure he could. That's why they squeeze 'em up like that, to mush up the squirrel's bones and innards so it's basically like squirrel-flavored goop that the snake just sucks down his gullet.
