Wait, what? Scientist discovers snakes hunt in packs

my champlain valley ^ | 26 May 2017

[minnesota_bound]

I see a SYFY movie with hanging snakes grabbing the tourists on a secluded island.

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[Reily]

Usually “pack hunting” features some sort of sharing of “the kill”. It might be hierarchical sharing with “high status” pack members going first but it’s still “sharing”. As far as I know snakes swallow their food whole. So how can there be “sharing”? With no “sharing” why hunt as a pack, why cooperate?

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...or they could just eat each other

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Excellent points. Perhaps it’s not really pack hunting on the snakes’ parts, but rather that they simply, for whatever reason, stay together as a group. At least that particular species or particular group.

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“In the interest of accuracy, snakes are not pack hunters, according to Dr. White. “They’re not hunting in a pack. I really stress that. There is no pack hunting element. There is no coordination. That area of the beach just has a vast number of snakes, and if one snake gets a whiff that there might be food and starts to make a move, all the others follow,” she says. “They’re like, ‘Whoa, what’s that? What’s he seeing? I want it, too.’ “ ...”

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