Posted on 09/25/2016 1:42:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pythons swallow their prey whole, and take several days or even weeks to fully digest it.
Biting off more than it could chew cost a 20-foot python its life in Junagadh district. The python died yesterday after swallowing a blue bull (‘nilgai’) at Baliavad village near Gir wildlife sanctuary, a Gujarat forest department official said. Villagers found the python lying on the road, its belly distended beyond normal capacity, and apparently struggling to digest the animal it had swallowed. “Forest officials were informed and they rushed to the site to ascertain its condition,” Deputy Conservator of Forest R Senthilkumaran said today. “It succumbed to the internal injuries caused by the (swallowing of) blue bull,” he said. Pythons swallow their prey whole, and take several days or even weeks to fully digest it. They are known to prey on animals much larger in size. After eating, a python can go several weeks, if not months, without needing to feed again. Reportedly, A farmer who first noticed this, informed the authorities of the Girnar Wildlife Sanctuary, Junagadh, through a telephonic message.
“Python roams around the wildlife sanctuary and they could rarely be seen. We got a telephonic message of a farmer that a python has swallowed a big animal. We sent a rescue team immediately and found that a python has swallowed a blue bull,” said Assistant Conservator of Forest S.D. Tilala. Watch the video here.
“It was 18-20 feet long. We have transported the animal to some other place so that it does not injure other people. We will keep it under observation. When it will digest the blue bill, we will release the python in the forest,” he added.
"Your eyes are bigger then your stomach."
Also killing off birds and mammals.
We have a Nutria problem in Louisiana but since they started putting a bounty on them the population has dramatically decreased.
Come on, admit it, you eating them too. Right?
Clicked your link so where is the video????
I don’t remember you sitting across the table.
Hey is that you Dave or Steve, or are you Chris, Denise or Joanne? Or perhaps my deceased Dad is looking down on you giving you that look, “That’s right, you better eat it.”
I usually rest after eating a big meal like that. They may want to just leave it alone.
May be, but as hats, they're not good for anybody. /Seinfeld
But the hunts are a joke. Put a year round bounty on their head and let the boys have at it. It would be cheaper than all the money they waste study and trying to figure out these creatures.
Not yet but I want to.
My oldest son once did this with too many bratwursts at a picnic. He didn’t have to eat for several days.
One day someone’s going to bring in another box of chocolate covered donuts to work and leave them in the break room... and this will be my fate.
-—I don’t know what is wrong with those folks in Florida. If they would just put a bounty on the heads of these invasive creatures the problem would solve itself. There are still a lot of good ol’ boys in Florida.-—
You might want to look at a map of the everglades...
It’s massive amount land area mostly assessibile only by airboat...
Plus, python isn’t exactly like eating venison...
Well, gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins.
I've often wondered the same about biting and stinging insects - like mosquitoes.
Just what purpose do mosquitoes serve in the ecosystem?
Bat food?
Hey in can’t hurt and it’s better then doing nothing.
Originally published in ‘Adder’s Digest’.
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