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Rare Snake Dies While Eating Giant Centipede in Florida Park
WFLA ^ | Mar 16, 2022 | Dylan Abad

Posted on 03/17/2022 6:58:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A rare snake died while attempting to eat a giant centipede at a South Florida park, according to the FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

Researchers said a hiker found the rare snake at John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. Pictures showed the snake dead with the rear portion of a centipede protruding from its mouth.

“The state-threatened rim rock crowned snake lives in pine rockland and hammock habitats in eastern Miami-Dade County and the Keys,” FWC said in a Facebook post.

Researchers said the snake usually grows between seven and nine inches long, but is rarely seen because it lives under rocks, debris, or in limestone cavities. The post also mentioned the unusual sighting represented the first food record of any kind for the little-known species.

FWC speculated the snake tried to eat a juvenile Keys giant centipede, which can reportedly reach the size of a crowned snake in its adult form.

“Crowned snakes are usually immune to the venom of centipedes, whose bites are painful to humans, but something went wrong during this encounter,” the Facebook post stated.

The snake, along with the centipede, will soon go into the Florida Museum of Natural History collection.


TOPICS: Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: centipede; florida; snake
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1 posted on 03/17/2022 6:58:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Totally gross dude.


2 posted on 03/17/2022 7:01:41 PM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: nickcarraway

Don’t mess with pedes.


3 posted on 03/17/2022 7:05:03 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: nickcarraway

I wish this was a literal metaphor for russia and china

Or north korea and iran


4 posted on 03/17/2022 7:06:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

My family camped at John Pennekamp Park...
25 plus years ago...
dang raccoons would take away anything you left outside...


5 posted on 03/17/2022 7:07:47 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Toss jalapenos to raccoons. They will go away pretty quick.


6 posted on 03/17/2022 7:10:43 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: nickcarraway

Now more rarer.


7 posted on 03/17/2022 7:20:38 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (The best things in life aren't things.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Hawaii has some nasty ones.


8 posted on 03/17/2022 7:23:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Guess that’s why they’re endangered.


9 posted on 03/17/2022 7:28:09 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: FreedomPoster

Great post! ;)


10 posted on 03/17/2022 7:28:57 PM PDT by Reddy ( B.O. stinks)
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To: Fai Mao
Toss jalapenos to raccoons. They will go away pretty quick.

The jalapenos or the raccoons?

11 posted on 03/17/2022 7:31:56 PM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: Fai Mao

1 Ghost Pepper should do it.


12 posted on 03/17/2022 7:32:41 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway

It died doing what it loved.

The centipede was not available for comment.


13 posted on 03/17/2022 7:35:10 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: SaxxonWoods; Salamander; Daffynition
“Crowned snakes are usually immune to the venom of centipedes, whose bites are painful to humans, but something went wrong during this encounter,”

Another case of

Sum Fang Wong

14 posted on 03/17/2022 7:38:52 PM PDT by Ezekiel ("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️.)
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To: Reddy; EEGator
I think you'll like this.


15 posted on 03/17/2022 7:40:21 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Secret Agent Man

More likely us and the Russians. Just remember who’s running our hover - not exactly the smartest people on the planet - corrupt, venal, arrogant, yes; but definitely not too smart. They’ll poke and prod the bear until we get a nuclear boot up our ass.


16 posted on 03/17/2022 7:51:05 PM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Jess Kitting

The raccoons


17 posted on 03/17/2022 7:53:43 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: nickcarraway

I hate it when that happens.


18 posted on 03/17/2022 8:10:22 PM PDT by Scarlett156 (What's causing that funny smell? Scientology going down in flames! )
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To: nickcarraway

This sh*t has been going down for a billion years.

That vertebrate vs arthropod hatred just never ends.

There are too many Americans that are reluctant to support snakes in this conflict due to them being reptiles, and humans being mammals. But we all have backbones (except for Mittens).

Americans need to understand these...spineless armored thugs for what they are and denounce their MAGA agenda (Make Arthropods Great Again).


19 posted on 03/17/2022 8:32:24 PM PDT by Sapwolf (Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. -Sowell)
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To: nickcarraway

Aw.

Poor little noodle.

:(


20 posted on 03/17/2022 8:58:00 PM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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