Why do snakes eat themselves?

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Don’t they understand they’re eating their tail? Or is it a suicide related thing?

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Snakes only rarely do bite their own tail, often because of some condition like blindness or by thinking it’s a different snake for cannibalistic snakes, usually when kept in a small enclosure. The motif in culture is called the Ouroboros, which has more of a mythological basis than a physical one.