The BCI that I used to have took her time constricting f/t prey too. I never timed her, but gee...Most of my snakes decide rather quickly to just eat, but in any case,
they can't help it. They wouldn't survive & reproduce very well if they made such mistakes as swallowing a full-grown rodent that has merely fainted, allowing it to revive
& attack their internal organs before dying. And when I kept rattlesnakes, they pretty much all bit their prey first...even when all they ever saw was dead prey.
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