Posted on 06/16/2018 4:49:55 PM PDT by simpson96
Horrifying!!!
Aren’t these horrible snakes in the Everglades now?
A big constrictor snake can suffocate you to death and eat you afterwards.
This is. really a freak thing.
“Arent these horrible snakes in the Everglades now?”
Is that where Charlie Crist moved?
Video on Daily Mail ... but pixelated.
Those in Florida are Burmese Pythons. This was a reticulated python, so, no worries. /s
Well, if one calls crushing and breaking every bone in your chest suffocating....they constrict tighter at every exhalation.
Big shotguns.
No. A worse one. The Burmese Python is running amok in the Everglades.
RIP. I hope she fell down and was unconscious or something. But I don’t think most people realize just how hard they squeeze, if I recall they can break bones, squeeze shut the heart valves and give brain embolisms. So maybe it would be fast.
here’s something from the interweb so it is true for sure:
” Working with National Geographic, he measured constriction in an 18-foot long anaconda. The pressures this snake could exert could cause cerebral aneurysms, or snap the backbone of a large animal like a capybara or a deer. Moon thinks that these large snakes arent deliberately breaking the backs of their prey its just a fortuitous side effect of their size and the mass of muscle they use in the squeeze. The cerebral aneurysms are probably what theyre really after.”
They probably want the prey dead as fast as possible so they don’t get injured. I read one theory is that snakes might squeeze mammals so much longer than they need to because it is leftover from when all prey had reptile and amphibian nervous systems.
Freegards
If you are a normal sized American, then you have nothing to worry about.
Man bites dog.
Reason number 68 to always keep a sturdy knife on your person that you can operate with one hand. You bet bit and wrapped up, start stabbing everything that ain’t yours.
Yes.
Reticulated python goes native.
why was the woman tending a python’s vegetable garden?
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