Yep I've seen the same thing when some of our BP's were on f/t, sometimes they'd do the whole constrict and kill the already dead prey, sometimes they'd just snarf it down. One of our females literally opened her mouth and just slurped it up right off the hemostats - very surprising to me at the time LOL


I would guess since they have well honed instincts that sometimes they just figure "oh what the heck it's dead...time to eat!" and occasionally skip the constriction step (though most of ours did constrict their warmed up f/t prey anyways).

~~Jo~~