offtopic - python eats kangaroo

[Chang Style Novice]

Amazing sequence of photos here. (http://andiamnotlyingforreal.blogspot.com/2005/03/grim-look-at-australian-food-chain.html)

[PangQuan]

That is actually pretty amazing, that someone got that on film.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

im not sure that was good for the snake. i guess it will probably survive, but i dont think that's normal for it to eat something that much larger than itself. it must have been desperately hungery, stupid, or maybe im wrong.

[Kristoffer]

nah it's pretty common I hear. The snakes don't really have to eat that regurly, but hits it big once in a while.

[GunnedDownAtrocity]

right, but i just thought it was pushing its limits on what size prey shoud be consumed. im sure your probably right ... im just used to my ball and ive seen him eat somethings bigger than his head before, but not that much bigger.

[Three Harmonies]

I am a snake **** so I guess I will chime in....
That is an Amethystine Python, and they get rather large (largest in Australia if I am not mistaken). Though the meal is very big, is she lays undisturbed for a few days she should not have any problem with it. Pretty impressive none the less.

Cheers
Jake :D

[brothernumber9]

Some large constrictors do take on more than they can chew and occasionally die from it. Most have backward pointing teeth and cannot "spit out" such large prey when halfway in, and can die from anything from suffocation to heat, to hunger, or being consumed themselves.

[norther practitioner]

I'd still have to imagine that this snake was pushing it's upper limits. It would prob. pray on rodents normally.

[Three Harmonies]

Brothernumber9
Actually they can easily regurgitate, and it is rare that it kills them. The majority of the time if they die, it is because something internal was punctured. For example if one swallowed a goat with horns, the horns could puncture a lung causing internal damage, but most people cannot see this so they assume that it ate too much.
The teeth do not get in the way when they puke it back up, only when they are clamped on and you are trying to get them off of your arm :D !

Cheers
Jake :)

[joedoe]

It was a wallaby and not a kangaroo. A full-grown wallaby is typically quite a bit smaller than a full-grown kangaroo - the largest wallaby is probably only half to two-thirds the size of a grey kangaroo (a smaller species of kangaroo) and nowhere near the size of a red.

[PangQuan]

Luckily for the ignorance of this forum we happen to have a snake specialist and an Australian marsupial specialist on hand to deal with situations such as these.

:p :D :cool:

[joedoe]

Luckily for the ignorance of this forum we happen to have a snake specialist and an Australian marsupial specialist on hand to deal with situations such as these.

:p :D :cool:

And luckily we have our resident ignoramus so that the resident snake specialist and the resident Australian marsupial specialist have someone to enlighten :D

[Mo Lung]

Yeah, the pictures are actually pretty misleading. The snake is only about two feet long and the "kangaroo" is actually the common or garden Australian Kangaroo Mouse. Not nearly as impressive as you think.






































;)

[Three Harmonies]

Learn something new everyday. The Amethystine does get large though.
Now this is an African Rock Python, and that ain't no ****ing mouse!
Enjoy
Jake :)

[Mo Lung]

Yes it is! Brown fur, pale underbelly... that's just a little field mouse! ;) :D