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Posted by Big J on July 11, 2002 at 15:53:29:
In Reply to: Not that I'd want to try it... posted by Dean Alessandrini on July 11, 2002 at 15:09:23:
an experiment similar to the one you propose. I am guessing olfaction is the key for the snake to determine how decomposed a prey item is. Understanding that system better would probably help, but I wonder what compunds in the smell of decay are the key inhibitory components. I honestly don't think my FWC would respond to any inhibitory component as long as the decomposing animal were not desiccated.
As for snakes eating dead items in the wild, I know this to be the case in at least one circumstance from a night drive I took, where I found a getulus eating a roadkill gopher snake.
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