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Snake Tears Apart Crab!
Snakes, as everyone knows, are to coolest damn animals *ever*, and do some really strange things, including swallowing tremendous items, gliding between trees, and having massive orgies in Canada.
In terms of swallowing huge things, most snakes are quite remarkable - all snakes are predators, and some quite spectacular ones, with an African rock python found by explorers having swallowed a 140-lb boar. Usually, the snake swallows the prey head-first, so all the limbs simply "fold down".
But some things are just too ungainly to swallow whole, such as crabs. So what do they do?
They rip the crab apart!
In terms of swallowing huge things, most snakes are quite remarkable - all snakes are predators, and some quite spectacular ones, with an African rock python found by explorers having swallowed a 140-lb boar. Usually, the snake swallows the prey head-first, so all the limbs simply "fold down".
But some things are just too ungainly to swallow whole, such as crabs. So what do they do?
They rip the crab apart!
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