Climbing and swallowing: new food item in the diet of Boiruna sertaneja Zaher, 1996 (Squamata: Dipsadidae) with note of climbing behavior

Observations on the natural history of snakes, including their food items and behavior, are essential for increasing basic knowledge about species. Here we report encounter a Pseudoboini snake, Boiruna sertaneja, feeding an individual Philodryas nattereri unnatural perch elevated two meters above ground level. This is first record predation by B. sertaneja P. nattereri, which increases what known diet behavior species in semi-arid areas northeastern Brazil.