Pythons have huge appetites, but which snake around the world would win an eating contest?
can consume deer weighing more than 70 pounds and alligators 100 pounds or more. Still, the little egg eater can consume prey with a cross-sectional area more than twice that of a Burmese python of similar weight.and western diamondback rattlesnake don't even come close to the egg-eater.are nearly spherical, like a Ping-Pong ball. Birds, mice and rats are elongated, providing more calories than an egg of the same circumference.for its size, Jayne said.
"One likely reason this extreme gape evolved in African egg-eating snakes is that they specialize on a prey shape with a modest amount of mass per cross-sectional area," Jayne said."That puts a premium on having a wide mouth." As a specialist, the Gans' egg-eater has evolved a soft mouth with precious few teeth, which could interfere with gripping a smooth-shelled egg., Jayne said.
"They put on quite a show, making a hissing sound by rubbing their scales together. They'll flatten their heads and strike," Jayne said."It's comical because it's all bluff. They're toothless wonders."B. C. Jayne, Scaling relationships of maximal gape and prey size of snakes for an egg‐eating specialist and a dietary generalist ,
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