Region's longest land snake caught on video by Dubai wildlife specialist swallowing its prey

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Dr Reza Khan, wildlife specialist and former head of Dubai Zoo, was doing his usual rounds checking the wildlife at Al Qudra Lakes when he spotted a five-foot-long snake lurking, observing its prey. The predator was a Schokari Sand Racer, also called Arabian Rearfang or Hissing Sand Snake, and the target was a sparrow inside a nest.  Read the full story: https://bit.ly/2BE2eSK See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  #Dubai #snake #SchokariSandRacer

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00:00There is a hissing sand snake or Shukar's sand snake on top of this Akashu Arabica or

00:21bubble tree.

00:23I think it has already eaten the cheek of a sparrow because when I came here about half

00:29an hour back I could hear the screamings of the sparrows and other birds and they were

00:35trying to mob it.

00:37And now it is trying to digest the food, stretched the body and its abdominal side looks little

00:45bulkier than the other part of the body and this is how they do digest, try to digest

00:51the food when they have a meal on top of a tree.

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