Feeding habits of snakes

What are the main feeding habits of ⒈ snakes?

Snakes are carnivores, mainly preying on live food, and some snakes also eat dead animals. Because snakes live in different living environments, sizes, and growing periods, the food they prey on is also very different.

The main food baits for snakes are frogs, rodents, birds, insects, @ # @ 260 birds, @ # @ 254 birds, @ # @ 237 birds, @ # @ 236 birds, fish and small beasts. When hunger is unbearable or lack of food for a long time, most snakes will swallow their own kind, especially adult snakes. Once snakes develop the habit of eating snakes, they are generally difficult to change for the rest of their lives.

According to the number of predatory species of snakes, biologists subdivide them into two categories: narrow-eating snakes and universal-eating snakes. Narrow-eater snakes eat only one or more foods, such as the Eye King Snake eats only snakes and lizards; emerald snakes eat only earthworms and insects; blunt-headed snakes only eat terrestrial mollusks; black snakes eat only frogs and Loach; there is also an egg-eating snake in India that eats only birds' eggs. Wide-eating snakes prey on many kinds of animals, such as red-chain snakes eat miscellaneous fish, frogs, toads, chicks, lizards, birds and snakes, as well as some dead food; squirrel snakes eat lizards, frogs and insects, but also prey on birds, rats and other snakes. The cobra eats bird eggs in addition to the above-mentioned food.

The range of feeding habits of snakes is wide and narrow, which is often closely related to the living environment in which they live. Generally, snakes live in an environment with rich food and a wide variety of food, and the choice of bait is relatively strong, and most of the snakes in aquatic life feed on fish and shrimp. Snakes living in caves usually feed on earthworms and insects. Because snakes live in the sea all their lives, they can only eat seafood in the sea. This is the main food chain between narrow-eating snakes and the living environment, and it is also a kind of instinctive dependence formed by snakes in order to survive.