has anyone ACTUALLY seen this happen?

[cmack91]

i see pictures like this all the time and i always wonder if theyre real or not. ive seen corns, boas, and kings in the pics. i figure that IF it is real, the snakes tail got in the way while swallowing a mouse and its feeding response kept going or something like that, ever seen it in person?

[Simple Man]

Kings eat other snakes. I'd hazard a guess that it is more likely it thought its other tail was a snake than any other explaination. Who knows though?

Regards,

B

[mainbutter]

Nope, but in an episode of Snakebytes, Brian said after producing thousands of kingsnakes, he's seen it a few times.

[cmack91]

huh, i always think the pictures look real enough, but idk, i guess i'll wait to see if i see it someday

[Maixx]

Yeah, that can happen with Kingsnakes or other snake eaters.
It's a very real risk for kings kept in too small of an enclosure.

Here's an article about another.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ting-tail.html

[cmack91]

wow, thats crazy, it probably ate 1/3 of its body, thanks for the article

[adamsky27]

Jeff Ronne recently had a photo of a boa doing this, and it actually was dead at the time of the photo.

This photo is Jeff Ronne's, taken from his facebook.

[scc_583]

It's a never ending loop snake. On a serious note that would suck

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[Anatopism]

I've seen an overzealous cornsnake go for his tail at one point during feeding. He got a little too excited, but let go and stopped after I blocked his tail with my hand so he couldn't go any further. This same corn had previous tried to swallow my pinky finger.