Feeding
This species is a constrictor, meaning it suffocates its prey, coiling around small animals and tightening its grip until they can no longer draw breath, before eating them. Though they do consume mice and rats, black rat snakes will also hunt other snakes, frogs, lizards, chipmunks, squirrels, juvenile rabbits, juvenile opossums, song birds, and bird eggs.
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