Understanding the food habits of the green vine snake ( Ahaetulla nasuta ): a crowdsourced approach
Herpetology Notes(2020)
Abstract
A total of 209 observations of Ahaetulla nasuta feeding on prey were compiled from social media platforms, citizen science websites, and from the literature in order to gain insights into the food habits of this arboreal colubrid, and to construct an inventory of the prey species recorded in its dietary spectrum. The diet of A. nasuta consists primarily of frogs (37.4%) and lizards (32.5%), occasionally snakes (19.9%), and rarely birds (9.22%) and mammals (0.97%). At least forty-four species spanning 38 genera and 19 families have been recorded as prey items of A. nasuta; 41 of these trophic interactions are previously unpublished. These data serve as a preliminary exploration into the food habits of A. nasuta and can be used as a baseline for future hypothesis-driven research.
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green vine snake,food habits,ahaetulla
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