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Sea lamprey vs snake

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*Leask*
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Which is stronger, sea lamprey or a snake of about the same size?
Nov 7 2013 8:37AM
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Stadtski
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lamprey definately, i catch stripers in the river by my house and they sometimes have massive holes in their sides from lampreys. theyre scary as shit.
Nov 7 2013 8:45AM
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BLADEE
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Lamprey for sure, those things are terrifying.
Nov 7 2013 9:00AM
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coling
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Depends on the snake. A puff adder would annihilate a lamprey
Nov 7 2013 11:21AM
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erikK
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I was expecting a video...
Nov 7 2013 11:26AM
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Laurent.
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Too many variables when you are putting a genus up against a suborder.
Nov 7 2013 11:30AM
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.Hugo.
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Depends on the kind of snake and lamprey. Most species of lamprey don't even feed on fish like the ones ypu're probably thinking of.

Overall I would say snake though. Lampreys don't kill their prey, they just parasitize them for a short period of time. Where as in most cases, the snake does aim to kill.
Nov 7 2013 12:02PM
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