A wildlife technician caught and tagged a “stout” 4-foot-long japanese indigo snake in Georgia, after which he bought a shock. After he tagged the snake, it puked up some issues it had not too long ago eaten. These issues included two different snakes, and certainly one of them was nonetheless alive, and it had simply eaten a giant meal of its personal.
The Georgia Division of Pure Sources’ (DNR) Wildlife Sources Division shared the story from late final yr in a Fb submit yesterday.
“Throughout a survey for federally protected japanese indigo snakes final November, wildlife technician Matt Moore got here throughout an astonishing discover. After catching and tagging a stout 4-foot-long indigo in southeast Georgia, Moore found that the snake had regurgitated two others: a younger rat snake and a juvenile japanese diamond-backed rattlesnake.”
Georgia DNR experiences that the rat snake was lifeless, and, initially, Moore thought the rattlesnake was lifeless too. An hour later, although, the rattlesnake confirmed indicators of life and went to go bask within the solar—and doubtless ponder the fragility of life.
“To high off this outstanding occasion, the revived rattlesnake had a noticeable bulge, indicating it had not too long ago eaten a big mouse,” Georgia DNR provides. “This uncommon episode not solely reveals the indigo’s spectacular looking talents but in addition the rattlesnake’s sudden resilience.”
So far as we all know, the regurgitated rattlesnake didn’t then regurgitate its mouse meal to disclose a dwell mouse, though that may have simply been the cherry on high of this weird story.
See the snake (and the puked-up snakes) right here:
