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Introduced goby eaten by native water snake
I moderate a Flickr group called “Snakes eating in nature.” The group contains many wonderful observations of different snakes and the prey they catch in the wild. After the group passed its first 1,000 contributions, I posted a few examples … Continue reading
Posted in On the Web, Uncategorized
Tagged flickr herping, garter snake, Predation
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Plump Tadpoles and a Hungry Snake
Every summer, intense life and death struggles play out between predators and their prey in the shallow pools of water dotting the meadows of Yosemite National Park. With little room to escape, the tadpoles presented a potentially easy meal for a hungry garter snake. Continue reading
Posted in Natural History
Tagged Frog, garter snake, pacific chorus frog, Predation, Snake
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