*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

This is true. Occasionally there are African Rocks that are found dead or injured with antlers, or horns protruding from their insides. AfRocks are renowned for killing and consuming prey items upwards of 100%+ their body weight. Add that to the fact the prey they had just consumed had horns...it happens :P

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Originally Posted by Phreak

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.

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python power!!!

There is a video of an Anaconda throwing up a baby Hippo! :eek: NASTY

that is unreal!!! :omg: how cool! ;)

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There is a video of an Anaconda throwing up a baby Hippo! :eek: NASTY

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I know which one you're talking about........it's not a hippo, it's a capybara.

You can't quite carry that around your neck.

Aw, what a cute little Afrock

cool. thx 4 sharing.

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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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I know; those horns would have looked awesome above my fireplace in the living room! :D

=-o wow...