By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-02 16:30:03 | Updated at 2024-11-02 18:23:23
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Florida biologists prove invasive Burmese pythons are swallowing deer, alligators whole
ABC News ^ | 1 Nov 2024 | Julia Jacobo
Posted on 11/02/2024 9:27:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
By the time they got to the scene, the python had swallowed about half of the deer, and it took about 30 more minutes for it to consume the other half, Bartoszek said. Had the deer still been alive, the scientists would have intervened. Instead, they got a front-row seat to the intricacies of the food chain.
"For us biologists, this was the most intense thing we've ever seen on assignment," he said. "This was as primal as it gets."
Burmese pythons can consume meals equivalent to 100% of their body mass,
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Outdoors
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A friend who worked in South Africa for years had a news clipping about a local farmer who didn't answer his phone at lunchtime.
His wife found him entwined by some constrictor and he had CHEWED deep into the snake!!!
He said words could not describe how tough the Boers are when need be. My friend is a bean pole and always describes the HUGE leg calves of the Boers.
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