Big meal for small snake...

[Liam Russell]

I thought I'd post this photo of a neonate adder I caught a couple of years ago. After a few minutes in the bucket it regurgitated the fully grown viviparous lizard you can see next to. I think the lizard was longer then the snake....



Here it is with one of it's siblings

[Mario Schweiger]

I´m wounderng, how the lizard would have enough place in the adder, so the vipers stomach is about in the half of the snake.
Was it bent inside?

Mario

[Ilian Velikov]

Wow How did this lizard fit in there!!!

[Liam Russell]

I´m wounderng, how the lizard would have enough place in the adder, so the vipers stomach is about in the half of the snake.
Was it bent inside?

Mario

I think they are pretty stretchy (like a python eating an antelope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy67XU6xEi8 ). I think the lizard's tail was folded over, you can see a bend in it. When I caught the adder it was looked really fat and kind of lumpy so I guessed it had just eaten, but didn't realise the meal was this big! I felt bad for making it give up its meal, that would have seen it through hibernation. I was catching them from a site that is to be built on so I guess it was better for the snake to be moved in the long term...

[Jürgen Gebhart]

Unbelievable!!!! Cool Docu!!!