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The Gans’ egg-eating snake (Dasypeltis gansi), a non-venomous colubrid native to West Africa. This is a small snake, with females reaching about 40 inches in length, while males reach about 28 inches in length.
But what is impressive is relative to its size, is the gape of its mouth. Thanks to the stretchy skin between its jawbones, the Gans’ egg eating snake can consume prey that is three to four times larger than snakes that are generalists such as the black rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus), Biologist Bruce Jayne of the University of Cincinnati said.
Of the 13 snake species with known gape, the Gans’ egg-eating snake had the greatest gape. The diminutive 3-foot snake has a massive mouth gape for eating eggs three times its head size.
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