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canibalism in spitters.
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by replover on July 17, 2004
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The other day i saw a video footage in i saw a spitter swalowing other spitter.
I thou that this kind of canibalism is seen only in king cobras.
is it realy possible?
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RE: canibalism in spitters.
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by taipan_nuts on July 17, 2004
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You did see the footage didn't you? It wasn't an optical illusion. Elapids snakes will consume other snakes. Sometimes their prey may be the same species and of almost equal size.
Dr. Ed
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by elapidking81 on July 17, 2004
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Yes most all cobras will eat other snakes it is just that king cobras only eat other snakes. but other cobras will consume othere snakes if it is a readly avalible food source.
shane kissinger
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by Chance on July 18, 2004
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Of all the cobra species I've kept and kept together, I've only had one instance of cannibalism and it was in the Asian spitter N. siamensis (black and white spitter). I had two juveniles, '03s, being housed together for a short time. Both snakes were being kept well-fed to try to avoid the possibilites of cannibalism, but it wasn't enough. The larger of the two siblings (and the much less attractively patterned one, I might add) made a meal of his sister overnight. I checked on them the next day to find one very fat little snake. So I guess it just goes to show that even when well-fed, cobras are not to be trusted together. I've heard anecdotal stories of people's mating cobras cannibalizing each other, so it is possible even in "bonded" pairs. Some cobras, or cobra-like, snakes are also well-known for killing, though not necessarily eating, each other during mating. Rinkhals spitters, Hemachatus haemachatus, have been documented to envenomate each other so much during mating that one, the other, or both succumb to the venom. So the moral of the story is: if you keep cobras, never leave them alone unattended unless you are for sure they are interested in mating and not snacking.
-Chance
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