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Cottonmouths eating turtles?
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by TheFifthDay on October 26, 2008
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Has anyone heard of this happening? I read it in quite a few places, but I can't imagine a snake eating a turtle. Wouldn't there be a negative effect on the snake?
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by Cro on October 26, 2008
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Jon, cottonmouths will eat almost anything, including baby turtles, baby alligators, and baby cottonmouths !
I have seen them on several occasions on S. GA roads eating road killed frogs and snakes.
I sometimes feed mine Chicken Gizzards.
They are like the garbige disposals of snakes, LOL !
Best Regards John Z
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by lepidus on October 26, 2008
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I once saw a western cottonmouth on a back country La. HWY attempting to eat a full grown possom road kill. I had to disturb his meal in order to prevent him from getting run over or killed by some other means. I seriously doubt his ability to swallow the possom anyway as it was twice his size!
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by earthguy on October 27, 2008
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I know of one verified report of a large one eating a roadkill cat. There is a subpopulation in Florida that subsists on dead birds and FECES in a rookery.
Yeah. They'll eat durn near anything.
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by FSB on October 29, 2008
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Yep.... license plates, spark plugs, porcelain door knobs, old galoshes...
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by tj on October 29, 2008
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LOL...license plates. You beat me to it. Yep, they are the tiger sharks of the snake world.
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by LadyBloodRose on October 30, 2008
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haha gotta love these guys huh? They are incredibly opertunistic thats for sure an I highly doubt they would ever turn down a free meal in the right conditions. With their habbit of eatig road kill it makes me kinda wonder about teh bacteria that these specific snakes could carry in their mouths.
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by ALA_snake33 on October 31, 2008
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Have found them eating frogs live & dead, salemanders, fish live & dead, snakes including kingsnakes, water snakes, queen snakes, other cottonouths, copperheads, turtels, lizards and quit a few other unsavery things.
It is facinating that this seems to be the only snake in the world that will eat anything. A few years ago I found a dried-up mud hole, that had a pile of fresh dead fish in it. To make a long story short, there were 2 cottonmouth eating their fill of this pile.
This is exactly the reason I love this species so much. They never fail to supries me “LOL”.
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