Cary, N.C. — A cannibalistic snake went for a day snack on Monday, a lot to the shock of a Cary lady standing outdoors her entrance door.
An image the girl posted on-line reveals a snake consuming one other snake alongside a neighborhood sidewalk. The unfortunate snake is proven engulfed in a black snake’s mouth.
The girl mentioned the snake was nonetheless consuming his meal round midnight, 10 hours after she first made the invention whereas going out to make a cellphone name. The mom was along with her 1-year-old youngster on the time close to their residence on Westhigh Avenue. She advised WRAL the snake obtained spooked when she took her canines out through the ordeal and tried to eject its meal.
“He did have a superb self preservation intuition, I took my canines out (on leash) and apparently, obtained too near him. He shortly tried to regurgitate his meal which I hoped he would end! I didn’t need it left in my yard.”
The girl, who didn’t want to be named for this story, posted a photograph of snake’s meal by way of the neighborhood bulletin board web site NextDoor. The 2 snakes seemed to be related in measurement.
Animal specialists say it is common for a number of totally different sorts of snakes to eat different snakes.
The Triangle isn’t any stranger to weird snake episodes this summer time, as the days-long search for a missing Zebra Cobra in Raleigh grew to become a neighborhood phenomenon in June.
