Canal Rats are REAL?!?!

[BrianS]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Problem is that a 5' snake will eat one Canal-sized rat, and take two weeks to digest it. Won't eat another one. And there are thousands of rats and only a handful of snakes.

Same situation with seals and great whites. One or two sharks won't make a dent in the seal numbers And seals breed faster than whites.

but 1 - 5' snake will EASILY take down a whole nest of rat babies as well, and snakes being opportunists, will choose that over mommy rat every time

however, still more rats, and rats still win...

too bad that it gets cold here, letting a few water monitors and burmese pythons go along the canal would solve that problem, quickly...

[Tagger]

I hear rats are pretty tasty .. haven't got that desperate after a good skunking .. not yet ..

[Skitterpop]

Originally Posted by bjs

but 1 - 5' snake will EASILY take down a whole nest of rat babies as well, and snakes being opportunists, will choose that over mommy rat every time

however, still more rats, and rats still win...

too bad that it gets cold here, letting a few water monitors and burmese pythons go along the canal would solve that problem, quickly...

If I was one of those snakes without venom I would worry about getting eaten by the rats... When I was kid I saw a BIG RAT kill a small tough dog when surrounded by a pack of dogs.... then the bigger dogs shredded Mr. Rat.