Do snakes eat snakes ?

Question

Do snakes eat snakes ?

Answer 1

some do

Answer 2

Yes any large snakes kept with smaller snakes will and often do look on the smaller snakes as food items.  This is true even of some colony kept snakes like corns and Garters, where several snakes of different sizes are kept in the same enclosure.

Another way which may lead to snakes eating each other is when two snakes both attempt to swallow the same rodent.  The larger snake will as usual swallow the prey from the head end but if another snake has bitten on, the instinct to keep hold of the prey is stronger than the need to let go, even when the larger snake has started to swallow the head and neck of the smaller one

Answer 3

depends on the snake some do some dont

Answer 4

Yes some do

Answer 5

most don't but cobras, king snakes do

Answer 6

Yes, there are plenty that do, such as kingsnakes, milksnakes, coral snakes, some cobras such as king cobras, racers, coachwhips, indigo snakes, lyre snakes, and even copperheads and cottonmouths have been known to eat other snakes on occasion, and there are others, but that's all I can think of off of the top of my head.

Answer 7

Yes I know that king snakes do eat other snakes.  They are immune to rattlesnake poison so they can eat them.  I don't know about any other snakes.

Answer 8

yes some of them do

like kingsnakes and milksnakes