Video: Snake cannibalism

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzutQey60Ew A baby king cobra dines on a water snake. (via National Geographic) READ THE REST

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Cool, but itā€™s not cannibalism. If the king cobra were eating another king cobra, yesā€¦ but itā€™s not eating its own species. Itā€™s not cannibalism, itā€™s just dinner.

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Also, Kingsnakes are immune to a lot of other snakeā€™s venom, which is why they are able to eat other snakes, and presumably why they are even called ā€˜Kingā€™ snakes.

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I wonder if you could trick him into nabbing his own tail and becoming an ouroboros.

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I know. I was using the word ā€œcannibalismā€ loosely. I changed it so as not to confuse anyone else. Thank you.

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Man, Iā€™m glad for the little snake that he went in head first. It would suck being alive for the whole swallowing process.

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How am I supposed to not make a fellatio joke now?

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That would be why the genus is Ophiophagus.

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A baby king cobra eating another snake is not news. A baby king cobra being eaten by its intended prey is rather more unusualā€¦

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I would not want to try to break up that fight.

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