If you thought it would take just a day for a snake to digest its meal, you’re wrong. A snake can take up to five days to digest its last meal. With larger snakes such as anacondas, the digestion period is weeks rather than days.
The typical 4-5 day digestive process in snakes encompasses the entire feeding process, from striking and swallowing to excreting feces.
The larger the snake, the longer it takes to digest its food. Big snakes eat larger prey, and larger prey takes longer to fully digest. It can take a large snake a week or more to digest prey.
Snakes have stomach acid and enzymes that break down prey. Once this process is completed, the food is moved on to the gut for further nutrients to be extracted.
Snakes can take a longer or shorter time to digest their food. Some constrictors can eat a meal, fully digest it, and defecate in only one day. Others will go longer, up to two weeks, for reasons which vary but include temperature and the availability of food.
Credit : Snakes for Pets
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