Pythons have huge appetites, but which snake would win an eating contest? Surprisingly, it's a harmless little African snake that consumes eggs whole like an amuse-bouche.
Surprisingly, it's a harmless little African snake that consumes eggs whole like an amuse-bouche.Dasypeltis gansi
"It's spectacular but on a small scale," he said."People focus on big snakes eating big things, but if you correct for their size, these little guys are pretty scary."The Gans' egg-eating snakes grow to about three feet long. Named for herpetologist Carl Gans, the egg-eater is skinnier than many egg-loving snakes found in the United States such as the black rat snake, which is known to pillage chicken coops.
Burmese pythons are no slouches when it comes to eating big meals. In previous studies, Jayne found that adult pythons can consume deer weighing more than 70 pounds and alligators 100 pounds or more. Still, the little egg eater can consume prey with a cross-sectional area more than twice that of a Burmese python of similar weight.
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