00:00If you like snakes, and who doesn't, you might be aware that sometimes they eat other snakes.
00:05Now, a recent study from scientists at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil,
00:09has revealed that they eat other snakes a lot more than we realized.
00:13It goes like this.
00:15Previously, researchers had some anecdotal evidence that snakes were in fact cannibals.
00:20Now, after this review study, we've realized the following.
00:24There are about 207 different species that are known to scientists now to be regularly engaging in cannibalism.
00:32This happens across three major snake families, and it is evolved separately at least 11 times.
00:41So what this new review of scientific literature shows is that we knew a little bit before
00:47about a subject that actually might be very important to snake evolution.
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