Comportamento alimentar e dieta de serpentes, gêneros Boiruna e Clelia (Serpentes, Colubridae)

Iheringia. Série Zoologia

Carla Da Costa Pinto¹  Thales De Lema² 

[1] ,PUCRS Faculdade de Biociências Porto Alegre RS ,Brasil

关键词: Boiruna;    Clelia;    food;    feeding;    behavior;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0073-47212002000200002

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Boiruna maculata Boulenger, 1896 and Clelia rustica (Cope, 1878) were observed in captivity feeding snakes and rodents, respectively. Both species have shown a similar procedure in relation to the prey. Major behavior differences among the two species were: rodents killed before being swallowed, and snakes were mostly swallowed alive; both species are able to find the rodents head faster than the snake one; the coils formed during constriction were also used to hold the prey, specially the last coil, while swallowing rodents. Informations on stomach contents was gathered by dissection of preserved specimens of Clelia clelia (Daudin, 1803) and C. plumbea (Wied, 1820) were also included in the dietary study. The majority of preys consisted on snakes and lizards. Other prey items were mammals and birds. Adult snakes prey relatively smaller animals than the juvenile snakes do.

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