Prey Item Selection For Amphibian Eating Snakes

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Most of the commonly seen snakes in practice including boas and pythons (the boids), rat, corn, bull and pine snakes eat warm-blooded prey . The most common food items offered to these snakes are mice and rats; other prey offered include gerbils, rabbits and young chicks.

Silversides are great because they are whole- prey , but most of the other commercially-available fish are too large for snakes to eat whole. While many aquatic snakes do eat amphibians in the wild, we choose to avoid feeding amphibian sources due to potential toxins and parasites.

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I also compared changes in body size among the two diet strategies for active foraging snake species using data gleaned from the literature to determine if increased change in body size and thereby feeding morphology is observable in snakes regardless of prey type or foraging habitat.

In contrast, while the diet of a King brown snake (Pseudechis australis) may have a similar species richness to that of the Western diamondback rattlesnake, the diversity of its prey ranges from taxonomically disparate groups including amphibians , mammals, birds and invertebrates [30].

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