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Python Explodes after eating alligator

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Originally posted by: MichaelD
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.

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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.
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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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well I dont think keeping a constrictor as a pet is considered normal 🙂
 
... If the thing actually died from having it's head eaten by another Alligator instead of exploding, then I'm willing to believe in the World Serpent of Norse mythology at this point.

Dang.
 
Originally posted by: z0mb13
Originally posted by: MichaelD
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!!!
Click to expand...


Why? Everything I said is fact.

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

well I dont think keeping a constrictor as a pet is considered normal 🙂
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How about a turtle? Iguana? Gerbil? Bird? Fish? Dog? Cat? Ferrett?

Pet is a pet.

I was first attracted by reptiles (no, not that way, sicko!) b/c I'm allergic to cats, dogs, bunnies, hamsters...anything with fur.

Aside from that, here's a typical "snake care schedule":

1 January - feed snake, fill water bowl
15 Janurary - feed snake, fill water bowl, change paper in tank if soiled

That's assuming that you have the proper heating equipment in the tank, lights on timers, etc.

Snakes are the ultimate no maintenace pets. I travel a lot on business, so I am not home oftne.

Snakes don't have to be walked, petted, etc. They make no noise. Perfect.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: z0mb13
Originally posted by: MichaelD
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!!!
Click to expand...


Why? Everything I said is fact.

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

well I dont think keeping a constrictor as a pet is considered normal 🙂
Click to expand...


How about a turtle? Iguana? Gerbil? Bird? Fish? Dog? Cat? Ferrett?

Pet is a pet.

I was first attracted by reptiles (no, not that way, sicko!) b/c I'm allergic to cats, dogs, bunnies, hamsters...anything with fur.

Aside from that, here's a typical "snake care schedule":

1 January - feed snake, fill water bowl
15 Janurary - feed snake, fill water bowl, change paper in tank if soiled

That's assuming that you have the proper heating equipment in the tank, lights on timers, etc.

Snakes are the ultimate no maintenace pets. I travel a lot on business, so I am not home oftne.

Snakes don't have to be walked, petted, etc. They make no noise. Perfect.
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Aibo, anyone?
 
I can't tell exactly what I am looking at. It looks like two alligators. One sticking out and the long one. Did the python swallow two alligators? how come it's hind section is shaped like the gator? And if the gator was swallowed whole, why is it sticking out perpendicular to the python?
 
Originally posted by: brunswickite
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..
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lmao that would be hilarious. Like big fish eaten by bigger fish.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
I can't tell exactly what I am looking at. It looks like two alligators. One sticking out and the long one. Did the python swallow two alligators? how come it's hind section is shaped like the gator? And if the gator was swallowed whole, why is it sticking out perpendicular to the python?
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I'm confused by the picture also. It looks like there are three animals.
 
Because you are viewing it from the mid-section

"shown protruding from the midsection of a 13-foot Burmese python"

The tail of the alligator is sticking out of the python's mid-section, notice to the right of the tail sticking out you see the body going on. The python was 13 ft long! and the alligator was only 6.

Basically to the right of the alligator are the interior of the snake from where he burst open LOL and then you see the snake skin continue on.
 
How the heck this it manage the swallow the alligator from the back? Did the python do it so fast that the alligator couldn't get away?
 
Originally posted by: LordSnailz
How the heck this it manage the swallow the alligator from the back? Did the python do it so fast that the alligator couldn't get away?
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It killed the alligator first? Dunno bout you but I dont get my meat by biting into living cows.
 
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...


yeap i had a Redtail boa and a couple ball pythons.

The balls were great! never worried about them bitting or anything. they were fine unless you smelled like a rat during feeding time heh.

I had to give them away becase my house was just to cold (100yr old farm house). Now that i moved im thinking of getting another ball python. maybe one of the special ones like a albino or ghost. been browsing NERDs sight for them.

Though there is a reptile swap north of where i live. I got a the redtail for $70 about 5 years ago.
 
Originally posted by: LinuxIdiot
Because you are viewing it from the mid-section

"shown protruding from the midsection of a 13-foot Burmese python"

The tail of the alligator is sticking out of the python's mid-section, notice to the right of the tail sticking out you see the body going on. The python was 13 ft long! and the alligator was only 6.

Basically to the right of the alligator are the interior of the snake from where he burst open LOL and then you see the snake skin continue on.
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If it burst out, why would it be perpendicular?

Also, the shape of the tail of the python looks like the tail of the gator, so that implies it swallowed it tail first, which is unusual.
 
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