MadSci Network: Environment & Ecology
Query:

Re: What animals eat snakes?

Date: Tue Feb 20 22:22:38 2001
Posted By: David B. Hull, Ph.D., Faculty, CIS/TCM, DeVry Institute of Technology
Area of science: Environment & Ecology
ID: 982027594.En
Message:

The answer is anything, and everything.

Here are some links for how snakes are consumed.

As antivenom resources: http://howto.yahoo.com/ask/
20000803.html
Technically, they aren't killed, only "milked"

As medical treatments:
Traditional Medicine http://www.aapn.org/viettm.html

As human food:
Rattle snake chili, a search engine reply! rattle snake chili


Animal predators:
Mongoose http://bartleby.com/65/mo/mo
ngoose.html

Even snake predators:
King snake http:/
/www.attitude.com/users/zoo/zoo/animals/kingsnakes.html

As an exercise, you can check out parasites and infectious diseases!

Yes, being a snake, even a deadly snake is a hard life!

David




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