The dasypeltis snake swallowing a large egg
Egg-eating snake, any of the five species of the genus Dasypeltis of sub-Saharan Africa and Elachistodon westermanni of northeastern India. These nonvenomous snakes comprise the subfamily Dasypeltinae, family Colubridae.
The mouth is enormously distensible and the teeth are greatly reduced to accommodate a bird’s egg as large as a…