ok i saw this awhile back but forgot where i saw it and couldn't find it. it was re-posted last night/yesterday to Snakchat and i had to take screenshots. so i looked it up on The Dodo but still couldn't find the article. anyways here's what happened...
an African House Snake apparently swallowed it's prey but the prey wasn't quite dead. the homeowner found the snake, monitored it and then took it to a vet. the vet took x-rays, saw that it had swallowed a bat that kinda too big. i'm not sure if the bat was still alive at this point, but they pondered surgically removing the meal butt opted instead to tightly bandage wrapp the snake's stomach to allow for (suffocation?) digestion.
here are the screenies. you could see the bat moving in the first 2 pix but these are just stills. i can't believe how long the bat was able to stay alive inside the snake tho:
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