What Do Big Constrictors Eat in Wild?

ok, i know u big snake owners feed rabbits to your captive Burms and Retics and such. but what would big constrictors like these eat in the wild?

there was the the python that swallowed an antelope the other day. the rancher called in a snake catcher to remove the big snake and it regurgitated it in defense and to aid in escape. vid and story here: https://www.yahoo.com/news/blergh-wh...160500922.html

well today, another African Rock Python is making the rounds on the interwebz: another African Rock Python was filmed eating a Hyena. :O

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Nope. Nope.

Nope, nope, nope.

This is just not my vibe, as intriguing as it might be.

A Dutch web designer on holiday in Kenya found himself watching a gory situation, where a hyena was being devoured by a python.

Of course he filmed it and no doubt, it’s the perfect example of Mother Nature being as brutal as brutal comes.

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yep.

full story and vid here: http://www.2oceansvibe.com/2017/03/1...-expect-video/

more here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...ca-hyena-kill/

i also recall another wild python eating a big porcupine awhile back. that meal didn't turn out so well as it exploded and killed the snake. quills everywhere. big Australian pythons are known to eat Kangaroo's and Wallabies.

anyway i guess big, wild constrictors will eat anything they can overpower, kill and swallow.

I am pretty sure they will eat whatever fits. The burms are eating deer (the deer are relatively small here) and alligators in the everglades.

Pygmies!!

Monkeys of various species tend to be a top prey item for most big snakes.

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Originally Posted by Ax01

anyway i guess big, wild constrictors will eat anything they can overpower, kill and swallow.

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Eek, but pretty much this though I figure. LOLL

Can't be picky in the wild!

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Originally Posted by JodanOrNoDan

I am pretty sure they will eat whatever fits.

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this, 100%

Well according to a wildlife book in our local library one of their most favourite meals is ..... BATS !!!!??

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Originally Posted by Zincubus

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Lots of snakes will eat bats, they are simply flying rodents* after all.
;)

edit to add - I know they aren't rodents, I'm just being silly

But anyways, yes, search you tube for snake eating bats and there are a few neat videos of different snakes catching them in flight

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https://youtu.be/WVz8rvIl_vY

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Originally Posted by Zincubus

Well according to a wildlife book in our local library one of their most favourite meals is ..... BATS !!!!??

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Yep. Granted BRB's aren't part of the "giant" group but researchers documented a wild female dining on a vampire bat down in Ecuador.
https://phys.org/news/2016-10-descri...a-preying.html

Really the answer to "What do the giant snakes eat?" is "Whatever they want!"

Our snakes are pretty spoiled when you think about it.

That is just amazing. Just goes to show, if they can kill it, fit it and swallow it, they probably will. A 150 lb meal is downright spectacular! Nature is truly incredible!!!
I'll stick to keeping snakes whose prey I measure in grams :gj:

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Originally Posted by craigafrechette

That is just amazing. Just goes to show, if they can kill it, fit it and swallow it, they probably will. A 150 lb meal is downright spectacular! Nature is truly incredible!!!
I'll stick to keeping snakes whose prey I measure in grams :gj:

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What's more amazing to me is that they could even get their coils around an antelope or a gazelle. I understand scavengers like hyenas. They could very easily be messing with a large constrictor and get caught. But an antelope? Humans have to shoot them from long distance to take them down. Lions have to chase them down in order to eat them. granted those prey items aren't regular meals by any means but it's impressive that it could even happen.

That's the "ambush" part of ambush predator haha

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Originally Posted by Lizardlicks

That's the "ambush" part of ambush predator haha

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Yeah I hear you. But these are hardly fast and agile snakes.

Yup, so true. Those animals are just incredible!!!

Maybe it was already dead when the snake came across it ??