Re: News article--African Rock pythons and Burmese pythons
I hate the news......I stopped watching, reading and listening when my dad went to Iraq/Afghanistan for a year and a half. If there is a day when they start to actually represent the facts in the paper, news stations on tv/radio, I will gain faith again. Until then.....I will keep myself informed in other ways. Knowledge is power, believing what they (journalists) call the truth is ignorance.
Re: News article--African Rock pythons and Burmese pythons
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Originally Posted by
WingedWolfPsion
Now, we can't be sure that infants or very young children have never been eaten by giant snakes--surely they have.
It's also been shown that the reticulated python, at least, is perfectly capable of swallowing a human being, provided it constricted the person in the right position to begin with. They're so strong that they would break the bones in the shoulders, so that the width wouldn't be an issue anymore. It's more than possible that it's happened, and retics HAVE been verifiably caught in the process of TRYING to swallow people. So it's easy to imagine that one may have finished the job on an occasion or two.
It's an unlikely scenario, but there's no sense in pretending it's impossible. They are large, powerful, and certainly dangerous if not handled properly.
There's no particular reason to single out the African rock python over the Burm in that scenario, though.
Agreed, pythons and anacondas have been know to eat animals in the wild of similar size or larger then humans so in the wild it has definately happened before, if not on rare occasions. Although the only reason I could see picking out a rock over other giants is they seem to eat larger prey more often then the other snakes and can eat pretty large prey for there size, but still I don't see a true reason for singling them out.
