Just wanted to share one of many reasons why my username is what it is
My 2nd favorite pet snake, Oligodon ancorus, that i named Genghis.
Having his momentary sunbath (they rarely if not never bask, so it was absolutely unnecessary lol)
Having his weekly favorite dish, raw egg yolks
In case your wondering, despite his small size and the thick calluses on your hand, they can inflict a very nasty bite due to their specialized teeth used to slit open eggshells
Interesting snake ! So it just drinks the eggs for food?
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !
Yes it does. Only the yolks though. It regurgitates if it sucks in a lot of egg whites. Cholesterol conscious, maybe? Lol
Strange, the cholesterol is on the yolks ! Probably they have evolved a way to deal with it .
Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !
Maybe it would just prefer an omelette???
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But it doesn't eat cooked eggs
Hey Niel, this is natural for the snake to regurgitate the egg shell afterwards. Many of the egg eating snakes have special vertebrae that crack the egg open and since they cannot digest the shell, they regurgitate it. But, hes your snake
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The Oligodon genus doesn't swallow eggs whole then spit out the shells even the wild
Only the african genus Dasypeltis does that. Oligodons will forcibly open an egg with a slit via their teeth or their pointed tails. Oligodons also prefer reptile eggs particularly sea turtles and crocodile eggs to devour since reptile eggshells are not as hard as a bird egg whereas the Dasypeltis group eats almost exclusively, birds' eggs.
Very cool snake! Would be fun and interesting to feed your frog egg yolks lol.
Hey Neil. i thought you had the African species but i had no idea that there were other egg eaters out there!
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That could've been convenient than feeding live all the time lol
The Asian egg-eaters are more widespread than the African egg-eaters and are found in a variety of habitats from semi-arid, montane forests, sandy beaches and rainforests and are found in the Philippines, China, India and as far as Iraq and are waaay colorful
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