Preserved food for snakes: predation on pidan made of sea turtle eggs on the insular beach

Reports on the utilization of preserved foods in animals must be applied to broad taxa for understanding their ecology. However, the current state is biased towards specific taxa (mammals and birds), and the utilization of preserved foods in reptiles has never been reported. The discovery of the utilization of naturally preserved foods in reptiles provides a unique system of feeding ecology that researchers have not previously envisioned. We found a snake feeding on sea turtle eggs that have been preserved by changing like pidan.