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Eastern Indigo Eating a Rattlesnake!!!

VinnyJ

VinnyJ

Red Chin Eastern Indigo
I have a cousin that is working in Georgia and sometimes posts pics of cool stuff that he sees there. It's has never been herp related until recently when he posted these pictures of an Eastern Indigo eating a rattle snake. I knew rattle snakes were a part of the indigo diet but I've never seen any pics until now. Enjoy :)

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Wow! Amazing sequence of photos! That was a sizable rattler and quite the feeding lump in that indigo!
 
Those aren't new pictures. That sequence of photos has been circulating in email chains for awhile. The email usually says "Why you should never kill a black snake!" I always thought it was funny that it isn't a Black Rat Snake, but I guess they are referring to a black colored snake in general.

Dug up the email I saved...here is what it says.....
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT KILL BLACK SNAKES!!!!!!

The guy who snapped these photos said the rattler was still
rattling all the way down!!!

I guess you'd now call the black snake a 'black-rattler.'
 
crousescorns said:
Those aren't new pictures. That sequence of photos has been circulating in email chains for awhile. The email usually says "Why you should never kill a black snake!" I always thought it was funny that it isn't a Black Rat Snake, but I guess they are referring to a black colored snake in general.

Dug up the email I saved...here is what it says.....
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD NOT KILL BLACK SNAKES!!!!!!

The guy who snapped these photos said the rattler was still
rattling all the way down!!!

I guess you'd now call the black snake a 'black-rattler.'
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I just shot an email to my cousin to see if he took the pics. I assumed he had since they were mixed in with pics he took in Georgia. My bad if they aren't his. Either way they're still cool pics.
 
That is freaking crazy! Awesome series of pics and that would have been amazing to see in person!
 
That is still way cool even if he didnt take them. I think these photos do need to circulate more, so the general public wont kill every single snake they see.
 
Yeah...I've seen those before too.

And it looks like a Texas Indigo and Western Diamondback Rattlesnake.
 
LOL. The same Texas Indigo and WDB pics that have been circulating forever.

Maybe next someone will post the pic of the GIANT RATTLESNAKE (that the guy holds towards the camera to make it look super big)...or the Giant Deer Cam Rattler photo (where the pic make the snake look ginormous)....or the Giant gator swimming with the deer in its mouth... Or...guess I should stop before I ruin the next emailed suprise.

They are cool pics though.
 
Those are great pics, thanks for sharing. It's so amazing that it can swallow such a sizable meal, especially being so out in the open with onlookers nearby.
 
StrangeCargo said:
Maybe next someone will post the pic of the GIANT RATTLESNAKE (that the guy holds towards the camera to make it look super big)
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LMAO I have a copy of that rattlesnake picture your referring to. Looks like it 7 feet and 100+ pounds. I was also told it was a Timber Rattlesnake.
 
Yeah, that photo sequence is at least a few years old. I also got it in a forward as if it were taken around this part of the country. There's another one about "Hazards of working in Florida" that has an alligator in one photo and a pipeline full of Westerns.
 
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