Posted by Strega on March 22, 2013, 6:49 pm Edited by administrator Strega March 22, 2013, 7:05 pm
Interestingly enough, sea snakes often swallow quite large eels tailfirst and alive. "Alive" in this case means "poisoned and probably dying, but the snake doesn't care if it's still moving as long as it's weak enough to swallow."
The trick here is that eels are exactly the right shape to fit inside a snake and sea snakes are highly venomous. Apparently they've learned to hunt what you would THINK would be deadly dangerous prey, moray eels. They approach them tailfirst, bite to inject poison, and so they eeel doesn't float or swim away they just start swallowing. The result, as seen here, is sometimes the eel gets away and sometimes a snake ends up with a really big meal. 83
I suspect it was indeed poisoned, from the fact that it didn't seem to be able to injure the snake by biting it. If the snake had been confident enough in its own safety I think the eel would have weakened and eventually ended up as an enormous bulge...assuming the snake was in fact big enough to swallow it at all. 83
