The Crab Eating Water Snake

There's another hypothesis that it could be to spread out the dosage of the toxinsines from certain toads. But they have also been seen eating toads that are known to be poisonous. So that might not be why. It's probably just that the snake knows how much it can swallow at once, and so it eats larger toad's gut by gut. There aren't very many other snakes that eat their food one little bit at a time instead of whole.

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