Christmas Eve in Hong Kong: A Common or Oriental Rat Snake
Malcolm Peaker (noreply@blogger.com)
AJP was walking on Lamma Island on the morning of Christmas Eve. In a semi-abandoned village he spotted this rat snake on a patio. He estimated it was a good 1.4 metres in length.
These snakes will eat any land vertebrate they can catch. They are constructors but only applying sufficient coils, contraction or body-weight to kill their prey. In other words they do not go all in such that the whole body engulfs the animal in their mouth as in some other snakes They are powerful snakes and object..