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105 Creative crab eating snakes
Episode 105

105 Creative crab eating snakes

Herpetological Highlights

April 12, 202224m 33s

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Show Notes

Snakes eat crabs, and they eat them in some pretty unusual ways. 

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Main Paper References:

Jayne, B. C., Voris, H. K., & Ng, P. K. L. (2018). How big is too big? Using crustacean-eating snakes (Homalopsidae) to test how anatomy and behaviour affect prey size and feeding performance. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123(3), 636–650. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly007

Other Links:

Feeding videos of crustacean eating snakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtMR7I38s1U 

Music:

Intro/outro – Treehouse by Ed Nelson

Species Bi-week theme – Mike Mooney

Other Music – The Passion HiFi, www.thepassionhifi.com