Large
snakes can fit a lot of huge items in their bellies, but sometimes it
takes its toll on their life. Even a creature as powerful as a python
can occasionally bite off more than it bargained for.
They can fully digest large land animals such as antelopes, sheep, goat, crocodile, their own, even human. It might take a bit longer to swallow, but it’s possible. Luckily, this allows them to go many weeks without eating.
They can fully digest large land animals such as antelopes, sheep, goat, crocodile, their own, even human. It might take a bit longer to swallow, but it’s possible. Luckily, this allows them to go many weeks without eating.
1. Python found dead after swallowing a 30lb porcupine.
A
giant python was found lying dead next to a cycle track after
swallowing a 13.8kg (30lb) porcupine, the spines of which punctured the
inside of the snake.The python, nearly four meters (around 12 and a half
feet) long, died after falling from a rocky ledge in the Lake Eland
Game Reserve in South Africa. The fall is believed to have forced the
quills to puncture the snake’s digestive tract (though the exact cause
of its death is unknown).After the snake was reported to gamekeepers,
they performed an autopsy on the animal to remove the porcupine from its
innards and found the insides of the snake had been pierced by dozens
of the animal’s sharps quills.
2. Python bursts after eating Gator.
Unfortunately
for a 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python in Florida’s Everglades National
Park, eating the enemy seems to have caused the voracious reptile to
bust a gut literally.Wildlife researchers with the South Florida Natural
Resources Center found the dead, headless python in October 2005 after
it apparently tried to digest a 6-foot-long (2-meter-long) American
alligator. The mostly intact dead gator was found sticking out of a hole
in the midsection of the python, and wads of gator skin were found in
the snake’s gastrointestinal tract.
Julatten
resident Neil McDougall was looking for mushrooms on his property when
he discovered a dead 4.5m python. It had a very distended belly
indicating it had eaten something quite large. An expert told Mr.
McDougall the snake most probably died from a perforated gut.
4. The Python had recently consumed a 76-lb. adult female deer. The reptile was one of the largest ever found in South Florida.
5. Python eats a pregnant sheep.
In
2006, firefighters in the Malaysian village of Kampung Jabor were
called in to remove the bloated snake 18ft long from a roadway. The
reptile had swallowed an entire pregnant sheep and was too full to
slither away and digest its supersize meal.
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