Louisiana Pine Snake Feeding
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WARNING GRAPHIC:LIVE FEEDING(strike 3:15) ...Pituophis ruthveni, commonly known as the Louisiana pine snake, is a nonvenomous Colubrid. IUCN lists this species as endangered. A large cause of population decline is the destruction of their habitat, the longleaf pine forests.
In the wild, they are known to crush their prey on the sides of their burrow. Even in captivity they don't constrict as a normal constrictor would. That is why I would never feed him live. This is the one exception and is for educational reasons. I purposefully used small prey for the protection of this endangered animal. It also so that the prey did not have to struggle and it was a humane.
You can see that he doesn't wrap his prey but tries to crush it onto the side of his body.
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