Snakes Attack! Snakes Striking Prey (F/T) Video

[dakski]

I fed my two Boas and my two corn snakes tonight. My BP is on her winter fast, and not really an impressive eater as she rarely strikes and usually just pulls the rat into her house and eats. My carpet python, Yafe, got sick in transit and is doing pretty well, but has only had one meal so far, and don't really know what his food response is going to be like long-term. However, I know the other four snakes I have are all aggressive feeders. They are a 2 1/2 year old Ghost BCI, Behira, who is 1,200G and eating medium rats every three weeks, a 1 year and 3 month old Venezuelan True Red Tail/"Dwarf" BCC, Feliz, who is 135G and eating hopper mice, Figment, a hypo-lavender adult corn snake who is 650G and eating adult mice weekly (with a week skipped here and there), and Solana, a scaleless sunglow motley red-factor corn who is 7-months old and 44g and eating large fuzzy mice.

I thought I would start a thread for people to post videos of different species striking and coiling, or whatever they do, attacking their prey. Figment was pretty chill for him tonight as he usually wraps and coils as he drags the mouse all the way across the tank, often several times. However, still fun to watch corn snakes, and colubrids in general, go after prey. They do not take long to hone in on the prey, and don't waste time after that striking and coiling.

Might be fun to see the differences between different species or even between different snakes in different species, if there is much.

I specified in the thread title, F/T, and ask that people stick with that for two reasons. One, there are many people who don't mind seeing a snake go after a F/T prey item, but would rather not see them strike a live prey item. I figure we get more interest sticking to F/T here. Secondly, it's an apples to apples comparison then.

If you feel you must post a live feeding video here, which again, I respectfully ask that you not (you are welcome to start your own thread for that), please make a note that you are posting that and put a link and not insert the video directly. Thank you.

So, without further ado, here's my video.

Dakski's Snakes Striking Video: https://streamable.com/xh0qy