It must be a fever pipe dream , you think , your tegument burning and everything going black as some strange military force compresses your trunk . Am I being digest ? But all of a sudden , a softened human articulation start claver . A rushing of air and you ’re free , your captor slithering off . Bewildered , you present in stupor for the camera .
Dang , you recollect . The encounter in interrogative sentence , uploaded to YouTube over the weekend , has become an instantaneous viral hit .
So , what the hell ’s hold out on ? I asked Sara Ruane , a snake expert and assistant professor at Rutgers University , Newark to watch the video recording for us .
Image: Youtube/Screenshot/Ryan F. Mandelbaum
“ snake eat each other all the time , ” she said . “ When snakes are startled by something or something is attacking them , one of their first lines of defense is to throw up whatever is in their stomach . ” That ’s because they no longer have food weigh them down , and it might scare the predator . I , too , would run off from someone vomit their lunch on the street .
In this case , it ’s likely that the videographer , Christopher Reynolds from Newton , Texas , startled the big snake when hestarted cinematography . “ As shortly as that serpent throw it up it takes off , ” she enounce . “ Now it does n’t have this other snake weighing it down . ”
Ruane place the bigger snake in the grass as acoachwhip(Masticophis or Coluber flagellum ) , base on its location and behavior . The ocotillo is a uncouth snake that hunts with its eyes and does n’t constrict its prey . It sort of just eat whatever it overpowers . She thought the smaller ophidian was either another coachwhip or a racer ( Coluber constrictor ) , but it ’s harder to tell because it ’s behind a bush .
Snakes inside of snakes might be a surprise to you , but is actually quite convenient in Ruane ’s line of workplace . “ masses do n’t realize how many bushed serpent you find on the road , ” she said . “ Every once in a while you come up one with another snake in their stomach and you get a twofer . ”
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