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 Ovophis m. monticola feeding habit

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Mario Lutz
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PostSubject: Ovophis m. monticola feeding habit   Ovophis m. monticola feeding habit Icon_minitimeMon 10 Mar - 10:33

we have Ovophis m. monticola for quite some time now here at the facility.
one interesting fact about them is, when they feed the double kill their pray. we usually feed fresh prekilled food items to our animals, but once in a while we do feed life mouse and rats(controlled and supervised of corse) - i know they might be some discussions about feeding life rodents, rather than the risk to injure the snakes , but we will discuss this topic somewhere else on this board...

anyway, interesting is that Ovophis m. monticola kills by bite - hold - and constrict their pray. this overkill is unusual to me, coz 99,9% of all other crotalids bites and hold, or bite and follow the pray after releasing them.. well, the chinese mountain pit-viper seams to make it different...

did any body else seen this behavior with some of his vipers?

i am very interested if that might be only been found by Ovophis...


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PostSubject: Re: Ovophis m. monticola feeding habit   Ovophis m. monticola feeding habit Icon_minitimeSun 16 Mar - 5:27

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I have see this before in a pair of monticola from seller in HK.I have see this for first time,possible this snakes use this technique
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PostSubject: Re: Ovophis m. monticola feeding habit   Ovophis m. monticola feeding habit Icon_minitimeSat 5 Apr - 22:40

Same here. But i don't think it has anything to do with 'double killing' or even constricting. They have quite small fangs so i think that they can't get a good grip like, for example, a Trimeresurus can. There venom isn't that strong that one quick bite is enough to kill the prey within a reasonable time so that they can wait from a safe distance till it's dead. So this seems to be the solution for them Very Happy

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