Snake eats snake: Smaller cobra puts up fight even when half its body already in mouth of bigger one

At that point, the elder Mr Tan did not realise that he was possibly the first person here to have recorded on camera a king cobra cannibalising another member of its species, swallowing it whole while it was still alive.

“Often, they are just common snakes, like painted bronzebacks and paradise tree snakes, but this time he struck gold without even realising it.”The species is classified as vulnerable in the Singapore Red Data Book, which provides information such as the scientific and common names along with descriptions of each plant and animal species here.

After verifying the contents of the video with his fellow enthusiasts, Mr Tan rushed down to the scene with one of them, 16-year-old Remy Shek. Having witnessed the 2023 confrontation, Mr Tan said the latest encounter is still “the ultimate prize”. The larger cobra had already dragged the smaller one out from where they were first spotted, and was consuming it on a footpath.

They also did not want to cause any stress to the animal as snakes are known to regurgitate and abandon their meals as an escape tactic.Mr Shivaram Rasu, scientific officer of the Herpetological Society of Singapore, confirmed that both snakes were indeed king cobras, and said that the finding appeared to be the first reliable documentation of king cobra cannibalism in the wild in Singapore.

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