How have snakes adapted for eating frog-eggs?

Przemysław Damian Puszkiewicz @Przemyslaw-Puszkiewicz

16 January 2014 0 6K Report

I was looking for some information about morphological, behavioral or physiological changes in Sibon argus (or any species who feed heavily on frogs eggs). It is easy to find something about how eggs avoid snake predation but I have problems finding anything about their predators' adaptations.

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