Interesting Study on Crustacean-Eating Snakes including One That will Rip a Crab to P

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Queen snakes almost solely eat freshly molted crayfish. Their populations have been declining and it's been hypothesized that pollution makes it more difficult for them to track their prey since they're believed to do so by essentially smelling the hormones given off when the crayfish molt. Given that, I'd wonder if the cat-eyed watersnake is having some of the same problems.

ugh, pollution stinks!

Those videos are so incredibly interesting! And packed with tons of information for such short videos. I’ve never heard of those snakes before either.

Thanks AX!

yw. it is really interesting! the other crab-eating snake pins down the crab prey w/ it's chin to keep it from wriggling as it coils and subdues i and then swallows it whole.

Edit: when could we see your Olive Python?