King Snake Cannibalism - KSC

[SuperH0ward]

They are both Lampropeltis Getula Holbrooki. The one being eaten is a juvenile. The dorsal barring fades as they age. It could be a male or a female, impossible to distinguish without physical examination and a sexing probe. They are voracious feeders, I have one in my collection.

[ThleTruth]

if i was a snake i wouldnt eat another one, too freaky, i would think it would jsut slither back out of my mouth, or live for a little bit in my stomach and bite the shit out of me...lol

[guyglowmore1]

you're lucky to have gotten that on vid. thanks for sharing. as far as kerryberry goes it's people like that that thoughtlessly fuck things up for the rest of us. we cannot afford to lose any more reptiles and phibians as they've become desperately rare in most places. that makes each life more important. with collectors, roads, flippers, habitat destruction, pets, and roads the odds are pretty bad for their survival. mix in some ppl's attitudes added it becomes trajic.

[alexanderssson]

Im with you popcorncandie. It is a great showcase

[YourPocketKitty]

bigger snake is just beautiful, all i have seen is a california king snake....can anyone tell em wat this one is?

[windsweptDemyx]

@YourPocketKitty Dunno if your Q was answered yet but if not, speckled king.

[xXScourgeLordXx]

@YourPocketKitty Speckled King Snake, they are more on the southern areas, that one isn't as beautiful as my barred female right now :3

[YourPocketKitty]

@xXScourgeLordXx ooo u should send me some pics

[josyme123]

iv got a king snake its 16 weeks old XD

[legion1a]

If that was me witnessing that, I would have saved the baby snake, brought both of them home and fed them.

Having 2 KingSnakes around is better than just one.

They do hunt down rodents and venomus snakes to eat them.

Which makes them nice to have around.

I love KingSnakes, I just wish they wouldn't eat each other.

[Lgetulus56]

What state was this video taken in?

[REACT562]

i wonder what would happen if they both started eating each other from the tail....?...lol

[DarkAngelusV]

I agree with what a couple of you are saying... the larger is a Speckled King and the smaller a Desert King... i have a Desert (also known as a Sonoran or Texas King, depending on where you are) King as a pet... King snakes are well known for eating other snakes including venomous varieties (the are venom immune) and even their own species/subspecies as shown here... hmmm KFC = Kingsnake Fighting Championship? lol

[canderson505]

@DarkAngelusV

They are actually both Speckled Kingsnakes. The babies look like that and then acquire more speckling as they grow up.

[scarletrobin]

Why do people always get so freaked out about people watching animals eat each other? It's nature, it happens every day... It's not something that should be ignored completely or stopped from occuring.

[damnu93]

is it eating its own child?

[JoshBJan94]

Person below me is mad.

[popcorncandie]

No... ignorant. You have to be delicate with people like this. Watch...

[kerryberry2007]

"I watched them for fifteen minutes before getting my camera". Fucking freak bitch.  Did you have popcorn and candy too? You could have threw a rock or something.

[popcorncandie]

Ahhh the ignorant. Here, showcased in all its glory, is yet another example of the calm and collected being forced to deal with the mentally handicapped. When will they push through right to die laws for the sake of general principle? One day soon we hope. But let me respond.

[popcorncandie]

Perhaps before you exposed the collective drivel you discern as intelligence you should have considered your chronic flaw. The ignorance factor. Allow yourself the latitude you need as a free-range nimrod.

You see, you're the type that acts too quickly, and you have to remember this. Too quick to speak without thinking, too quick to discredit without consideration, too quick to trust without concern.

[popcorncandie]

Contentfully blaming innocent people for innocent things, simultaneously trusting the scum of the Earth. Was that how you got 'The AIDS'? Don't cry schmo. All shall be resolved in the end as in reality you are going to die, as will each one of the mistakes you call children. All shall be rectified and it's for this we give Him thanks and praise. Amen

[mlynn1231]

@popcorncandie Shut up. You sound like you're trying waaay too hard.

[popcorncandie]

@mlynn1231 WTF are you on about?

[HOLYDSFA]

@kerryberry2007

lol "calling this guy a fucking freak bitch"

while you're suggesting him to throw rocks at it killing it.

[Freddie9384]

I think there is no efffect on the smaller desert king snake through strangulation by the big speckled one. The smaller one did not die and that was why it took a long time for the big one which found it tough to swallow the smaller one.

[JDMATRIX]

I wonder how I taste like

[Mrtriumphchopper]

DAMN! Snakes are one of natures biggest blunders.

[MonokuroBooHokKan]

This is so confusing lol.

[markz28]

The small one is a black king snake, norice the shape of the yellow lines on the dorsal side. Their natural bouandaries cross in the southeast.

[pietluvsstreetball]

cool is it rlly cannibalism?

[djbenfield]

@pietluvsstreetball cannibalism is eating your same species meat so ya . it is

[Gecktile]

thats fucked up

[cloudtheavenger]

@Gecktile thats life killed or be killed you dont kill off a few animals/plants to live you kill yourself

[GrimsarghUK]

If the larger was a male, it would be interesting to know if the smaller was also a male. i.e. eating a potential rival. If it had however been a female, it would appear to be short sighted to eat a future mate.

[Macr888]

Sweet! You probably won't ever see anything like that again! Great video, and nice length.

[brokenarrow2222]

it's time to take a nap.

[SnakeShed89]

what kind is the little one??????=0

[hellboy80004]

Both are king snakes, at least that is what the description says.

[SnakeShed89]

the little one looks like a desert king ans the big one is a speckled king

[iRiley2]

the hungry one looks like a  Speckled King Snake and the little one looks like a hognose or desert king

[Jon757]

Your Lucky to have seen that, good post.

[wildlandfirewolf]

i sure am glad i live in MN. we dont have bigass dangeres snkes b/c they cant survive the winters.

[CalmLikeABomb1]

lol "bigass DANGERES" Pshhh kingsnakes aren't dangerous =P, and there's actually A LOT of snakes in MN including 2 venomous ones, and as far as the cold they just brumate (hibernate) and come out when it's warmer again =P

[yournemesis54]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[asdfidot]

Speckled black is a morph.

[asdfidot]

Are those speckled blacks? =o

What state are you from? those are sick.

[popcorncandie]

King Snakes. Oklahoma.

[ogoje]

They will never try to consume one another if the're the same size

[OnsetFilms]

is that sanke eating another snake? what's going on?

[popcorncandie]

In the words of Mmamaster971... "Wow ur dumb"

[BleedingForBreath]

onsetfilms read the discription

[clickclong]

coooooool.

that's nature bitches.

[TTTTFatherTTTT]

Eats its own kind, hence cannibal

[shanna2cute]

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[skinsdude]

y didnt u stop that.?!?!?!? i kno it is nature but still?

[popcorncandie]

Rethink it once your old enough to drink.

[icecold99]

lmao . wow that was a stupid comment

[bekkthebest]

exactly why it didn't need stopped...NATURE ...only the strong survive hun

[HeartofDragons]

I have a king snake. He's a banana king snake, also know as an aberrant California king snake. He's about the size of that bigger snake.

[herpboy99]

you sick mother fucker....

[popcorncandie]

K..

[00spratworld00]

This is a captive born? I think so...

[popcorncandie]

No.

[danielailie22]

very nice snake ... to bad where im lieving we dont see snakes that offen

[guyglowmore1]

kingsnakes used to be common here before they put in roads and i had to peel them off. now haven't seen any in years. (sierras)

[Alyx37]

That's an adult Speckled kingsnake eatting a baby speckled king. typically they prefer the poisonous ones for dinner. For those of you that don't like poisonous ones, you should learn what the kingsnakes look like and leave them alone, as they are helping you out. What's crazy is this kingsnake didn't kill the baby before it started eatting, that's why he's having such a hard time. And thanks to good photography I can tell you the big one is a male. beautiful specimen

[bdbarnes]

didja at least kill it after filming,, them sucker breed quite a bit i surmise ?dic bane

[popcorncandie]

No, I didn't see the need. We're in the country and it was survival of the fittest.

[guyglowmore1]

have seen king snakes eat buzzworms (rattlesnakes or cloppenshlagen) in the wild. one ate a buzzworm larger than itself by my kitchen window and i had to keep the dogs and cats away all day while it swallowed/digested

[Dracorex13]

I knew kingsnakes ate smaller snake species (hence the name) but I had no idea they ate smaller members of their species.

[MaximumCat]

They do not discriminate much when it comes to feeding time. If a creature they encounter looks small enough to eat and smells like it's edible (And other snakes are #1 on their menu), Kingsnakes will simply attack and consume. They are among the most aggressive snakes when hunting, in sharp contrast to their behavior around humans. Most of them are very docile compared to other snakes and tame quickly. They are also known to actively chase their food down, rather than always lying in wait.

[08maplesea80]

is it a snake eating a snake?

[mmamaster971]

wow ur dumb

[Al3xDogg]

no sound?>

[popcorncandie]

No. The movie was way too big so I took it out, but you couldn't hear any of the fighting anyway.

[mack1time]

awesome video, quite rare in the wild. Also if you like snakes you should suscribe to my channel , I add new videos each and every week of my 15+ snakes chowing on mice and rabbits

[GTAWISCONSIN]

Man, message my fuckin balls.

[N5ZOW]

ROFLMAO, you want someone to send a message to your balls? What do you want them to say? Geeze those balls are small? If you meant rub them, you meant to say massage..... Damn new schools....

[colt3240]

king snakes own rattle snakes anyway

[asubsk]

king snake? isnt it a rattle snake? didnt anyone see its rattling tail??????

[popcorncandie]

Being non-venomous, aggression is it's only defense. Being so it rattles it's tail against any loose terrain which mimics the rattlesnakes behavior. It's called Mimicry. But besides the obvious facts that it looks nothing like a rattlesnake and isn't even the same color, it also has no visible fangs like the rattlesnake, no venom ducts under it's eyes like the rattlesnake, and since you didn't notice IT ALSO HAS NO RATTLE. So, NO, this is not a rattlesnake.

[lordabomity]

A lot of other snakes rattle their tail without a rattler, kingsnakes for an example.

[CrystalImageSinge]

the big snake is a speckled king and i think the baby is also a speceld with some desert influence

[dcchico3]

yeah kingsnakes eat other snakes including the same species or offspring and in this case the kingsnake didnt kill it because it was too small so it ate it live nice vid

[rsduhamel]

How do you get one king snake? Put two king snakes in the same cage.

[snake96]

is that a baby kingsnake if it is thats true cannibalisom

[popcorncandie]

It was the same species. Maybe it's offspring.

[snake96]

that proves why you dont put kingsnakes with other snakes including other kingsnakes same with racers couchwhips and indigo snakes

[magana559]

the lil one is a eastern banded king the big one is a speckled.

[popcorncandie]

There is no Eastern Banded Kingsnake.

[magana559]

dude i got 9 of them!!

[popcorncandie]

NO! Some ar-tard pointing to a random snake and saying 'Here it is!' isn't enough. There is no Eastern Banded Kingsnake and if you want to try and prove it legitimately be my guest. Post a link here showing the lineage breakdown from a legitimate source and you'll have my apologies. Until then...

[magana559]

it was not a banded but it is a Eastern 'Chain' Kingsnake. i will message you the link.

[Avalanche2]

Its not an eastern chain king its a speckled kingsnake.

[magana559]

ok.......... i dont care.

[Rownery]

Not caring shows your preference to ignorance

[magana559]

Fuck off you inbred loser.

[snake96]

looks like a baby racer or bullsnake that its eating

[popcorncandie]

I've actually never seen a Racer or Bull with that coloring before but when I was watching these two fight I noticed off the bat it was the same species because I couldn't tell the difference between their bodies when they would roll around.

[snake96]

wow

[snake96]

usally they kill it first but not in this case

[popcorncandie]

I don't think it had time.