Urp! Does anyone have an Alka-Seltzer?
Remember the scene in the Monty Python movie where the guy orders every item on the menu and just has to eat that one, last crumb?
Can a python bite off more than it can chew? Ewe bet
A LITTLE bloating after a big meal is an occupational hazard for pythons. But this unfortunate creature found itself unable to slink away and sleep it off. In fact, after swallowing a pregnant sheep, it couldn’t move at all.
Firemen in the Malaysian village of Kampung Jabor, about 190km east of Kuala Lumpur, easily caught it after it was spotted on a road.
Conservationists were yesterday still deciding whether to keep the 90kg snake in a zoo or release it back into the wild.
Pythons eat no more than once a week but when they open their incredible hinged jaws, anything is fair game.
This 5.5m python found its eyes were definitely bigger than its belly.
In July surgeons were forced to operate on a 4m Burmese python after it inadvertently swallowed a queen-size electric blanket.
Humans also have become victims. In 1972 a python in Burma swallowed an eight-year-old boy.
But sometimes their food really doesn’t agree with them.
In October last year, a 3.6m python came off second best in Everglades National Park in Florida.
The snake, which tried to swallow a 1.8m alligator whole, exploded, said scientists who found the gory remains.
I don’t think snakes have vocal cords, but I bet this python will want to scream when it comes time to pass this snack.
Similar to a python story I blogged a long time ago, but yours is better !!
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2979
(Python “explodes” swallowing alligator)
Curiously, a line from Monty Python came to my mind on that occasion also. 🙂
here another picture but undated at syawal.vox.com – adult supervision advise. http://syawal.vox.com/library/post/man-swallow-by-python.html
The movie was “The Meaning of Life”. The eater was Mr. Creosote. He said he couldn’t eat another thing, but the waiter cajoled him into eating one thin after dinner chocolate mint. That is when he exploded. The explosion scene was much longer and funnier in the original movie than in the VHS release.
Up pedantry!
That snake must have believed in Gordon Gekko when he uttered “Greed is Good”… o’boy, was he wrong…
do not take that stupid snake out just kill it because it will eat everyone and you if you let it out you will die so keep it in a jungle
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