I'm still relatively new to snakes, so this might sound like a really stupid question, but do snakes ever constrict themselves and cause damage?
The snake in the picture is Lo'ihi, my volcano corn. She's always just grabbed the pinky and eaten it. Yesterday was the firt time she's constricted? coiled? around one. Since I've never seen a snake doing that before, I have no idea of what's the proper way for them to coil around their prey, and what's not. At one point she had her head and neck buried two coils down, but didn't seem to be in distress as far as I could tell. It seemed to worry me more than it worried her. By the time I got the camera out, she'd already started to unwind, so I can't show what I'm talking about. I'd always pictured them coiling up around the prey, not themselves. Is it normal to just knot yourself up like that, or should I worry?
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