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animals from the same species have evolved to specialize on specific prey items.
the ferial dogs on the galopogas island as an example, they have only been there for like a 100 years or so, but there are 3 known groups and each have evolved certain traits so they can hunt a specific prey item. so perhaps we see this with Aurora's. Perhaps since JHB area has huge human population, lizards and geckos are more scarce while as we know where there is a dense human population rats and mice populations are huge, and we do know that the Aurora house snake is one of most common species of snakes found in the JHB area, so perhaps over time, they have evolved to specialized in a specific food source and rodents are their main food item, while other species found in more rural areas where rodent populations are less and lizard and gecko populations are more then those ones will feed mostly on cold blooded prey.
Maybe this is the key to the theory about how perhaps certain snakes are genetically more proned to accept one food item over another.
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