These snakes disembowel living toads for hours-long meals of their organs – CNET [CNET]

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The small-banded kukri snake lives in Thailand and eats Asian black-spotted toads, which secrete a toxin on their necks and backs to deter predators. The snakes seem to have found a way around that complication. Bringsoe recorded three instances where a snake cut open the side of a toad, stuck its head inside and pulled out the organs one by one.

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