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egg eating snake

Plural:egg eating snakes
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Any of several species of non-venomous colubrid snakes, native primarily to the African continent and parts of the Indian subcontinent, characterized by a highly specialized diet consisting entirely of bird eggs which they swallow whole, crush with specialized neck vertebrae, and then regurgitate the empty shells.

Example

"During the biology field trip to South Africa, the students were amazed to watch an egg eating snake unhinge its jaws to consume an egg much wider than its own head."

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eggbeater

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180019102020
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Wordmom. (2026). Definition of Egg eating snake. In Wordmom Dictionary. Retrieved Nov 5, 2026, from https://wordmom.com/dictionary/egg-eating-snake
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