{"id":559027,"date":"2026-04-01T22:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:26:10","slug":"trail-runners-stumble-upon-snake-devouring-another-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/559027\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Runners Stumble Upon Snake Devouring Another Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wild moment for a group of runners is attracting attention online. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gunnarsb\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Gunnar B<\/a> shared photos of the time he and a group of friends were running together and came across a unique sight: a snake devouring another snake. <\/p>\n<p>The winning snake was a <a href=\"https:\/\/lazoo.org\/explore-your-zoo\/our-animals\/reptiles\/california-kingsnake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">California kingsnake<\/a>, a non-venomous species known for preying on other snakes, including other kingsnakes. The losing snake? A venomous rattlesnake.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/second-person-in-a-month-dies-from-rattlesnake-bite-in-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Second Person in a Month Dies From Rattlesnake Bite in California<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile running with friends we stumbled upon a beautiful California King Snake. Always a treat to see,\u201d wrote Gunnar in his Instagram post sharing the photos. \u201cHowever, we immediately realized there was another snake in its mouth! As we took a closer look we saw it was devouring a Rattle Snake. Something you don\u2019t get to see often.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the trail runners\u2019 photos of a snake eating another snake here:<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by McDonald Wildlife Photography Inc.\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A wild moment for a group of runners is attracting attention online. Gunnar B shared photos of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5661,79,17530,121677,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-559027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-rattlesnake","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-snakes","11":"tag-trail-running","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}