re: Water moccasin eating road kill.

I'd have to see this to believe it. Snakes swallow prey, and generally only stuff they just killed (or still alive). Hell, my pets that are conditioned to be fed thawed mice and are expecting it every time I open the cage often won't take the mouse if I don't get the temperature up into the 90s. They'll nose right up to it and then refuse it at room temperature. I heat it up near body temp, and they hit it instantly. And snakes lack the type of teeth to tear away flesh or body parts and eat it. I couldn't even imagine a 5 ft. moccasin trying to swallow an armadillo. Are you saying a 2 ft. snake was literally trying to get his mouth around the head of the armadillo and not just poking around to see what's up?

ETA: I just researched it a bit, and a herpetology publication actually cites 50 observed instances of scavenging (43 in the field, 7 in the lab). So I guess it does occur. I never would have believed it though.