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      Some people believe snakes unhinge their jaw in order to eat their prey whole, but this is actually not true, if you think about it, unhinging your jaw would just leave it floppy and unusable, what they actually do is much cooler anyway

      Their bottom jaw is actually two separate pieces, it doesn’t connect at the middle, and because of this they can walk prey down their mouths.

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      There are actually a variety of snakes you can get that don’t eat rodents, especially small ones, you could get an african egg eating snake (warning: it is very hard to find eggs for babies as they’ll eat finch eggs, but adult females can do quail eggs, which are much easier to find) and garter snakes can eat fish, there’s also dekays brown snakes which can subsist off of worms/insects and are very small

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      1 year ago

      Hey be careful saying eye eye the poor guy might be sensitive about his eyes, look at them!

      jkofc

      edit: actually, I realized, I thought you were replying to my post giving advice on other snakes for people averse to rodent feeding, but now it’s showing your comment as all on its own and I recognize you were joking haha

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      1 year ago

      I’ve always felt like my default username stems from a lack of creativity, so, thanks!