*VIDEO* The amazing swallowing power of a large python!

Just a classic video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZwggWN_WY

thats crazy

it reminds me of the anaconda vs. crocodile (or maybe alligator) show on discovery

Seen that one a few times what blows my mind is the HORNS. Seems like those would clog the works, rupture the stomach something. It is one thing to swallow a big animal vertile it is another to deal with sharp horns horizonatal! :rolleye2:

It was funny watching it slither away it was HUGE! Youtube is awesome.

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Originally Posted by jjspirko

Seen that one a few times what blows my mind is the HORNS. Seems like those would clog the works, rupture the stomach something. It is one thing to swallow a big animal vertile it is another to deal with sharp horns horizonatal! :rolleye2:

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wooow I was wondering about the horns also...thought there was no way the snake would get it down!!! And it looked totally deformed when it was very slowly crawling off:eek:

Reminds me of me after Sunday dinner......LOL

That AfRock won't need to experience that again for another 6+ months. :colbert:

Not sure of where I heard it but apparently there have been afrocks found dead with the horns sticking out of them. Not sure if it's true or not though.

That was a great video! I saw a magazine once with sequential photos of a python eating a gazelle and the photographer said he could hear the horns snap as the snake swallowed it. Ouch!

I have heard stories of large anaconda's that would grab a cow and leave the head and horns hanging out of the mouth until it rotted off. Of course i don't believe it but i think it was the ranchero's who told these stories to the author of a book i read.


love that vid!


~mike