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Python Explodes after eating alligator

Well, what they think happened is the python couldn't move very quickly after eating such a big meal, and was predated on by another alligator...hence the missing head. If the python was damaged near where it ruptured from the second alligator, as it decomposed, the combination of the gas build up in the carcass, and the sharp claws of the alligator made it rupture...

It's highly unlikely the alligator was still alive after being swallowed and did that itself. Snakes swallow things very slowly...I doubt the alligator would have just sat there and let him do it. Also, it looks like the python swallowed him the wrong way...if he had swallowed it head first, it's claws and legs would have folded against the body as it moved through the snake..
 
I had four constrictors at one time. Had to give them away when I moved. 🙁

A snake can easily swallow prey twice the diameter of it's body.

My biggest snake was a 12-foot Columbian Red Tail.

This pic was taken three years ago; she was twice the size when I had to get rid of her.

I'm wearing gloves b/c in this pic, I just removed the side of my COUCH b/c I was letting her explore and she went into the body of the couchl. Took me about 4 hours to get the couch apart w/o hurting her. She wasn't too happy in this pic. 😀

Some more pics. Again, the pics are old.

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She was a hair over 12' long and 37 pounds when I gave her away. She was eating one medium rabbit every two weeks or so.

Believe me when I say she could easily break your arm if she wanted to.

A 13-foot Burm (Burmese Python) is SMALL. Full grown female Burms are 18-22 feet long and weigh 250+ pounds. VERY dangerous animals.

Snakes, like all reptiles, have almost no intelligence. All instinct.

Cat. Dog. Alligator...it's all food.
 
man...even if it didnt explode that would be one vulnerable python ...sitting there all bloated stretched to the limit. ultimate pwnage would be if something attacked and ate the python after it ate 🙂
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
man...even if it didnt explode that would be one vulnerable python ...sitting there all bloated stretched to the limit. ultimate pwnage would be if something attacked and ate the python after it ate 🙂
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Very true. A 200-pound Burm or Reticulated Python (one of the most dangerous creatures on this earth) can easily eat a 200-pound mammal.

The catch is that the snake is basically "comatose" and/or "hibernating" for the next two weeks until it's digested enought to move again.
 
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
man...even if it didnt explode that would be one vulnerable python ...sitting there all bloated stretched to the limit. ultimate pwnage would be if something attacked and ate the python after it ate 🙂
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like another python or something..

 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
I had four constrictors at one time. Had to give them away when I moved. 🙁

A snake can easily swallow prey twice the diameter of it's body.

My biggest snake was a 12-foot Columbian Red Tail.

This pic was taken three years ago; she was twice the size when I had to get rid of her.

I'm wearing gloves b/c in this pic, I just removed the side of my COUCH b/c I was letting her explore and she went into the body of the couchl. Took me about 4 hours to get the couch apart w/o hurting her. She wasn't too happy in this pic. 😀

Some more pics. Again, the pics are old.

Text


Text

She was a hair over 12' long and 37 pounds when I gave her away. She was eating one medium rabbit every two weeks or so.

Believe me when I say she could easily break your arm if she wanted to.

A 13-foot Burm (Burmese Python) is SMALL. Full grown female Burms are 18-22 feet long and weigh 250+ pounds. VERY dangerous animals.

Snakes, like all reptiles, have almost no intelligence. All instinct.

Cat. Dog. Alligator...it's all food.
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wow.....

you really are weird!!!
 
Originally posted by: z0mb13
Originally posted by: MichaelD
I had four constrictors at one time. Had to give them away when I moved. 🙁

A snake can easily swallow prey twice the diameter of it's body.

My biggest snake was a 12-foot Columbian Red Tail.

This pic was taken three years ago; she was twice the size when I had to get rid of her.

I'm wearing gloves b/c in this pic, I just removed the side of my COUCH b/c I was letting her explore and she went into the body of the couchl. Took me about 4 hours to get the couch apart w/o hurting her. She wasn't too happy in this pic. 😀

Some more pics. Again, the pics are old.

Text


Text

She was a hair over 12' long and 37 pounds when I gave her away. She was eating one medium rabbit every two weeks or so.

Believe me when I say she could easily break your arm if she wanted to.

A 13-foot Burm (Burmese Python) is SMALL. Full grown female Burms are 18-22 feet long and weigh 250+ pounds. VERY dangerous animals.

Snakes, like all reptiles, have almost no intelligence. All instinct.

Cat. Dog. Alligator...it's all food.
Click to expand...

wow.....

you really are weird!!!
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Why? Everything I said is fact.

Hey, I knew guys that kept "hots." POISONOUS snakes. :Q THAT is weird. As well as stupid!
 
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