<p><strong>TWO FANGS GOOD, A HUNDRED LEGS BETTER: JUVENILE VIPER DEVOURED BY AN ADULT CENTIPEDE IT HAD INGESTED</strong></p>

Abstract

On May 14th 2013, on the island of Golem Grad (Prespa Lake, FYR of Macedonia) a juvenile female nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes) was found dead, with head of a Scolopendra cingulata protruding through the body wall of its lower abdomen. The authors discuss the possibility that the snake had swallowed the centipede alive, and that, paradoxically, the prey has eaten its way through the snake, almost reaching its freedom.