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Biggest thing corn snakes have eatin

lilmike227

lilmike227

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Sorry if this is in the wrong spot, but I was just wondering what the biggest thing you ever heard of a corn snake eating. Either by accident on purpose or just a story you heard. The reason I ask is because i saw a ideo of a 5ft long black rat snake eating a possum. There was also another vid o it eating a rabbit that was pretty big in size. So I was just wondering if any of you guys have heard or seen anything crazy like that with a corn snake.
 
I think a big adult corn could technically eat small rats, chicken chicks, suuuuper small rabbit pinkies, pretty much any mammal that's small enough.

Not that they should, though. At least not often.
 
Lil' Mike, one thing to know regarding information that people have heard about snakes, it usually won't be very accurate. I have "heard of" a corn snake refusing to eat his meals so that he could save up and eat his owner.
 
elrojo said:
Lil' Mike, one thing to know regarding information that people have heard about snakes, it usually won't be very accurate. I have "heard of" a corn snake refusing to eat his meals so that he could save up and eat his owner.
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Yeah I'm not too sure about some of those bigger claims either. I've heard it said in some circles that it takes two hands to handle a whopper.
 
Well the reason I posted this is because of a vid a saw of a 5ft black rat snake eating a possum and a large rabbit. Now of course in captivity no one (in there right mind) would do this, but in the wild corn snakes arent handed appropiatly sized meals on a silver platter. I was just wondering if mabe they could take down full grown squirrels, moles, or anything larger than small-medium rats.
 
sometimes great photography to show how a hungry snake can swallow large meals, well, the photography is over when the upchuck of stinky partially digested prey item is regurged, but hey, it made for some great animal-planetisque footage.
 
I swear I've seen my corn eying the squirrels outside our house with a "Would that fit into my mouth" look in her eyes and sometimes an open mouth (her Viv has a window view if she chooses to take it, and she does seem to spend a lot of time in that window). We have really aggressive, annoying squirrels who seem to delight in coming up to the window to tease the cats...and maybe the snake!


I've also seen my frogs go crazy over a dragonfly outside their viv-with a wingspan that was probably wider than the frog's body. I have to wonder what they'd have done if they'd actually CAUGHT it!



-Donna
 
I've seen a bull snake eat a full grown cotton tail rabbit.
Nothing of that in corns though.
 
Everywhere I've read days wild corns eat bats and birds if they can catch them. So imagine a corn eating a full grow US native bat?
 
Most US bats weigh less than an adult mouse. To fly, they can't be very heavy! Our largest bat is the greater mastiff bat, HUGE at almost a 2 foot wingspan. They weigh about 50 grams -about the weight of a jumbo mouse.
 
If you look at the bodies of bats, they're tiny-it's just the wingspan that's huge. I do wonder how it would feel to try to swallow those wings, though. Of course, it makes my jaw and throat hurt to watch a snake eat a mouse, too.

--Donna
 
Well, my largest corn has given the hunting eye to squirrels outside the window and my maine coon kitten, who is NOT small.
But even an adult mouse takes her about 10 minutes, so I don't think she's actually go for it.

That being said, in the wild, snakes will at least try anything they can catch lol.
 
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