Engineer Bernardo Caamal Itzá, a well-known popularizer and promoter of Mayan culture, shared a video of a fight between two snakes that fight for territory in Valladolid.
The video, replicated from the Facebook account Ekuneil Peninsula de Yucatán, is accompanied by a text that, among other things, says that Roger Chávez from Valladolid took the video and is a scene rarely seen in nature.
In the video, viewers can see two snakes (Drymarchon melanurus), each coiled around the other body, crossing a road that converges with a highway.
According to the Facebook post, both snakes are male and tangle together to subdue their opponent.
According to another publication from the same Ekuneil Yucatán Peninsula account, the ekuneil is the second largest snake in the Yucatán Peninsula, only below the Central American boa, reaching a length of three meters. It is a diurnal snake with a slender body and rapid movements, and it lives in a large part of the Mexican territory, including the entire Yucatan Peninsula.
They also reported that their diet is very varied. It can eat amphibians, small mammals, birds, and even poisonous snakes. The latter has caused the residents to mistakenly consider the ekuneil the most venomous snake since, by their logic, it can eat other venomous snakes like the rattlesnake.
However, the ekuneil does not have venom, so the species is harmless to people and even helps control populations of venomous snakes by eating them.
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