Quote Originally Posted by Jack_Hammer
Yes it can. I've done it myself. It seems to me to be a flight response. It's a lot easier to run on an empty stomach.
Actually it's not a flight response. A snake's esophagus doesn't close as tightly as those in other animals. When you pick up a snake after it has taken a drink of water, that sometimes causes a little bit of the water to drool back out. It seems thicker because it's had a chance to mix with saliva in the mean time.

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