Aven is not a particularly photogenic snake (when he's paying attention to the fact that I'm taking pics of him, he has a magical ability to make them all fuzzy, at any rate), but when he's eating, he's much too distracted to turn on his magic.
So yesterday I fed him a mouse and got some pretty neat pictures. ;) But we'll start with a couple of his fuzzified pics just so you can see how adept he is.
What is this thing you're aiming at me?
Aven finds elbows very funny since they're not near as flexible as him. :c
See his extreme lack of teeth? Actually he has plenty, but they're so small you can't see them. Random fact of the day: Corn snakes are back-fanged; their fangs are at the back of their mouth. They're much better for holding on to things, but not so good for the initial bite.
I think it's amazing how much their skin can expand when they eat. .o.
Aven is a master of impressions, look at those mouse-foot mandibles he's got going!
Now he's a Narwhal. ;)
Where'd the mouse go? D:
Soo... there you go. Aven's funny to watch eat since he finds every lump and jutting part he could and gets caught on it... eating this mouse took him about 20 minutes. He's silly when he starts eating too, since he always tries to eat from the middle first, then tries a back foot... yesterday he had some sort of obsession with the mouse's front paw and dragged him around by that for a few minutes. xD Eventually he did find the head though, lol
I hate snakes!!! They're so not normal!!! :P
ReplyDeleteHumans are much stranger creatures. There are plenty of animals without legs who just swallow their food, but how many utterly bipedal and naturally helpless animals do you see out there? Not a one.
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