wretchedprocess
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My subadult snow corn, Whisper, has recently moved up to small adult mice. (Yay!) Generally, she constricts the once-living Hell out of her f/t prey, which I find adorable. Tonight, however, it went a bit differently. When I offered it to her she bit a chunk out of its belly, which not only resulted in a very stinky and messy feeding bin, but apparently made her decide she didn't need to crush it to kill it. And as she ate, I could hear what I assume were the mouse's bones breaking as it went down. Until I realized why there would be more audible crunching this time I was pretty worried, but I tend to assume Whisper, of all my snakes, knows what she's doing with her food, so I'm assuming she's unlikely to be damaged. But I found it really interesting that there was so much more noise this time. And it occurred to me to wonder whether that is perhaps part of why snakes tend to constrict larger prey, while happily sucking pinkies and peach fuzzies down whole. What do you think, is it possibly because the fully calcified bones are likely to cause more difficulties? And has anyone else ever had a snake not constrict an adult mouse and then crunch like that?
