African Rock Python (Python Sebae)

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African Rock Python (Python sebae)

The Rock python is Africa's largest snake. The rock python eats mammals and birds.
Lays up to 100 eggs about the size of a tennis ball in antbear (Aardvark) holes, hollow tree or similar suitable place. The female coils herself around the eggs to protect them.

The snake in this picture had eaten a full grown Impala ewe and, sadly, caught itself in an electric fence.
Over four metres in length, this was a large specimen.


When the python was skinned we found a full grown Impala ewe had just been swallowed.
The python kills its prey by coiling itself around the animal and constricting it. When the animal is dead the python swallows it normally head first. Having swallowed its prey, the snake will find an abandoned burrow or hollow tree in which to hide and digest it's meal.

I got that in an email at work. I'm not fond of snakes, but I found that story heartbreaking. The poor thing was trying to defend itself from unseen attackers and suffered an agonizing death. Call me a sucker, but I'm in tears seeing that again.

[Valerie100]

It just goes to show how nature is delicately balanced -- good and evil, peaceful and harmful. It's not that the snake is evil. It was just trying to survive and needed a meal.

Scary, though. I wouldn't want to meet up with a snake like that!

[The Red One]

All I can say is gross!

Am I the only one to think what agony this animal died in? It tried to defend itself. When its jaws caught on the electrified wire... imagine its pain. And then it couldn't free itself...more agony. My imagery of hell.

Sorry.

[The Red One]

I am sorry for the snakes agony and pain it suffered, I just don't like snakes.

I've had a fear of them forever, I can't even stand to see a dead one.

The reason I said gross, and I should have probably stated this on my other reply, is because I WAS eating breakfast.

I don't like to think of anything suffering like that.

Ahem! I'll try to lighten up.

[The Red One]

I don't like animals suffering either Snooze, it's just snakes are ewwwwww.

Speaking of animals suffering, at 11:14 last night I heard my dog bark twice and then I heard him yelping. My hubby doesn't move fast but he sure did last night! LOL Come to find out it wasn't our dog yelping, another dog came in the yard to where he is and well, you know dog's. My dog is fine and we looked for the one that got hurt, it ran into the field next to our house, no luck finding it and I fell asleep crying, I finally fell asleep as I heard the other dog yelping. He must have gotten it bad.

Oh sweetie! (((( hugs ))))

[The Red One]

He's always getting ahold of animals. He's killed a snake, rabbit, possum, cat, racoon, and the list goes on. The cat was the worst one I've seen so far, bad enough for me to run to the bathroom and throw up! EWWWWWWWWW. It was REALLY bad.