| Show snakes demand live food venomous Varlet varieties les cannot readily assimilate anything uninfected with their virus london tho the snakes at the HIB zoo are riot not as happy as they nad to be the rattler does docs not battla with his old enthusiasm the python tins has not such a piercing glare in ili hla his eyes as aa once he 10 had the reason for this according to information given la Is simple once upon a time the authorities fed ed the then beppy reptiles with animate food in the be shape 0 of mice and rats and pigeons now dinner Is served dead though hough to the meal by the agency of a bit ot of string as ab much sImIl similitude tude of 0 life as aa possible Is given some of the snakes it Is said bald refus i the dead food and have to be fed by force ahn question at issue was should the snakes kill their food or should it be killed for them by man in the case of 0 the poisonous onous snakes a naturalist said it Is highly that their food cannot be readily assimilated unless it first ras nas been inoculated with their virus and that ot of course cannot take place it if the he animal to bo be eaten Is already Alre adV deac poisonous noua snakes analco s at least should have I 1 live ive food forced feeding of snakes and feeding them theal on drad dead animals are both un natural nn ural A E Jamra Jain rach cb tho the well known dealer in wild animals anlu iila said ahen when a snake strikes its prey it alts until it la is quite dead before it eats it and in the meantime a copf cortous ous saliva Is set up necessary essary both for digestion wid ond to aid the snake in swallowing the animal if t the snake Is ia given dead meat the ralva Is not formed and the food lies and ferments in the stomach so causing dy dyspepsia a Is air the superintendent would not discuss the matter but lie he said bald the snakes are as well as ever |
