Centipede devours snake that ate it.

[DavidBrown]

Some scientists in Macedonia found a juvenile nose-horned viper that had eaten a centipede. The snake was dead and protruding from it was the centipede which had eaten all of the snake's internal organs and bitten its way partially out of the snake's belly before expiring itself.

The full account, with photos, is here: http://ecol-mne.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Arsovski-et-al.pdf

 

[dean]

Rather a grusome sight, i think the very little size differance was the problem here.

It reminds me of the stories of mealworms eating there way out of toads and young chicks, does any one have proof of this or is it an urban/jungle myth?

I notice when i feed the hand tame robin in our garden they nibble the end of the mealworm, and batter it a bit a bit before flying off but starlings etc just collect them up as fast as posible and fly to thier nest with them.