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- Title: Diet of the Canebrake Rattlesnake (Crotalus Horridus Atricaudatus): An Additional Record and Review.
- Author : The Texas Journal of Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2001
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 177 KB
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Abstract. -- In June 1993, a radio-tagged bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) and a cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) were recovered from the stomach of an adult canebrake rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus atricaudatus) in South Carolina. These data and a review of the literature indicate C. horridus atricaudatus is a generalist predator that opportunistically consumes a wide variety of prey. The diet consists primarily of mammals; rodents and rabbits are the most frequently reported prey. Birds and reptiles constitute a relatively minor portion of the diet. Bobwhite quail are the most frequently reported avian prey. There is no evidence for ontogenetic variation in the diet, due to the failure of previous workers to report snake size in relation to prey size. **********