Cruising Yahoo this morning...

[xdeus]

I came across this pic . That's something you don't see every day.

I guess one bulb wasn't enough...

[darkangel]

Interesting...

[djansen]

my snake has a terrible time eating anything and that one pounds lightbulbs!

[hardball]

thats crazy! i guess the heat they were giving off must have confused him. Any idea if this snake was able to survive this?

[xdeus]

thats crazy! i guess the heat they were giving off must have confused him. Any idea if this snake was able to survive this?

I don't know how they could have given off heat unless they were recently unscrewed, and I'm not sure if the snake was able to survive. I couldn't find any background info on the pic. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't setup, though. Maybe someone rubbed a rat on the bulbs and fed it to the snake. I can't imagine why a snake would try to consume a regular light bulb like that, even if it was warm.

[hoo-t]

Pine snakes will eat eggs. He must have thought he had found some nice, big ones!

Steve

[python.princess]

ouch! that glass!

[slartibartfast]

It's an old picture. The lightbulbs were used as dummy eggs in a chicken coop to encourage the hens to use the nestbox (chickens are not notoriously bright). The snake, as is common with this family, raided the nest thinking he was getting eggs.
They did surgery to remove the bulbs, and the snake made a full recovery and was released back into the wild.

Edit: Found the story...is 3.5mb download, with lots of neat x-rays of various things pets have swallowed

http://www.eklin.com/docs/eklin_they_ate_what.pdf

[xdeus]

Thanks Jess! I always like getting the story on strange pics that float around the internet.

[Spaniard]

What I don't understand is how the snake managed to not break the bulbs while swallowing?