I just saw this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7-FZQTok1E&feature... on national geographic's Youtube channel, and it looked extremely painful when that snake swallowed the capybara, but then I wondered, do snakes feel pain when swallowing animals much larger then them? Especially the capybara, which weigh as much as 100 pounds?
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Snakes disarticulate their jaws when they eat. That means their jaws separate and they can swallow large things. Plus the entire length of their bodies are muscles so they can just sort of gulp the animal down through their whole length once it's past their mouth.
some snakes, for all extensive purposes, suffocate their prey with the aid of constriction. So, like somebody else stated, a snake's prey is typically ineffective upon intake. Venomous snakes that have hemotoxic venom motives muscle deterioration. That being pronounced, a snake's prey, regardless of if that's being constricted, feels the soreness of collapsing bones and organs, on an analogous time as prey poisoned with venom sense the soreness of muscle deterioration. although, shop in mind that animal's have neither an analogous sized concepts nor worried gadget as we do, so as that they sense soreness in any different case than us. The soreness is far less for an animal than we'd think of it may be for a human to be eaten alive.
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