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Egg-eating Snakes

Egg-eating snakes are non venomous snakes that feed on only eggs. They swallow the eggs whole, and spines in back around the neck break the eggs, the content of the egg is swallowed and the egg spat out.There are other snakes however, that swallow eggs too, such as cobras, but they digest the whole egg and spit out nothing.




Vid 1. Egg-eater swallowing egg



Vid 2. Eg-eater spitting out egg shell

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