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woodbloke
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...that was the bit that made me smile :lol: - RobRob_H":nxmt2a59 said:
Chris By The River
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I wonder how he knew it went on for 3 hours.
Was the snake wearing a watch???????????????
Was the snake wearing a watch???????????????
OPJ
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Bloody hell! They reckon this snake may have escaped, "...probably from a gap under the door in the room where it was kept.". And yet, it was big enough to drag the man up a tree and potentially swallow him whole!! :?
Chris By The River
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I bet Reckless Rat'll be on his toes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doug B
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& timid toad !!!!!! :shock:
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It does sound a bit 'iffy' ...
I kept Royal Pythons for a good few years, and my mate had a 15 foot Burmese. The 15 footer would manage maybe a small to medium dog, at a push... but no way it could swallow an adult man ....
And unless I'm very much mistaken .. thats a Burmese Python in the photo.
I handled his regularly, ( the Python, before you get the wrong idea :wink: ) it would never have been able to lift either of us up, not a hope.
There's only a few Genus Pythonidae that would be fit for that ...
The African Rock Python, The Reticulated Python, and the Anaconda are the only three that spring immediately to mind.. these can get over 30 feet, and are capable of deer, caymans and the like..
They do have astonishing strength, particularly in 'compression' .. but do not actually kill by choking, they way a kill is achieved is by throwing body coils around the prey, and as the prey animal exhales, the coiling tightens that little bit, thus preventing an adequate volume of "breathing in". It doesn't take too many cycles of respiratory activity, before the victim can no longer inhale at all, and when this point is reached, death is basically moments away.
Although classified as 'constrictors', they don't 'squeeze the life' out of the victim animal as we tend to think.. the 'kill' is achieved as decribed above, as opposed to "damage by crushing."
A 13 footer would be incapable of ingesting a fully grown adult male human IMHO. Snakes dont chew, their jaws "unhinge" top& bottom, and each individual jaw is split to do similar, so it effectively looks like 'quarters' as it engulfs the prey animal. Whilst they can take in surprising bulk in relation to the size of their heads, a 13 footer's head is approximately the length of a smallish adult human hand and in no way capable of dealing with an entire adult human male.
The 'victim' has either seriously under-estimated the size of the snake, or has been at some 'exotic herbage' in his roll-ups. :wink:
I kept Royal Pythons for a good few years, and my mate had a 15 foot Burmese. The 15 footer would manage maybe a small to medium dog, at a push... but no way it could swallow an adult man ....
And unless I'm very much mistaken .. thats a Burmese Python in the photo.
I handled his regularly, ( the Python, before you get the wrong idea :wink: ) it would never have been able to lift either of us up, not a hope.
There's only a few Genus Pythonidae that would be fit for that ...
The African Rock Python, The Reticulated Python, and the Anaconda are the only three that spring immediately to mind.. these can get over 30 feet, and are capable of deer, caymans and the like..
They do have astonishing strength, particularly in 'compression' .. but do not actually kill by choking, they way a kill is achieved is by throwing body coils around the prey, and as the prey animal exhales, the coiling tightens that little bit, thus preventing an adequate volume of "breathing in". It doesn't take too many cycles of respiratory activity, before the victim can no longer inhale at all, and when this point is reached, death is basically moments away.
Although classified as 'constrictors', they don't 'squeeze the life' out of the victim animal as we tend to think.. the 'kill' is achieved as decribed above, as opposed to "damage by crushing."
A 13 footer would be incapable of ingesting a fully grown adult male human IMHO. Snakes dont chew, their jaws "unhinge" top& bottom, and each individual jaw is split to do similar, so it effectively looks like 'quarters' as it engulfs the prey animal. Whilst they can take in surprising bulk in relation to the size of their heads, a 13 footer's head is approximately the length of a smallish adult human hand and in no way capable of dealing with an entire adult human male.
The 'victim' has either seriously under-estimated the size of the snake, or has been at some 'exotic herbage' in his roll-ups. :wink:
I'm glad you made those observations Jenx, for a time I worked in a pet shop and the idea of constrictors crushing the life out of things was a standard joke!
I'll tell you one story that is true.
An elderly lady brought an Indian Hill Mynah in one day that she wanted to sell.
Nice bird, the Mynah, so I bought it and placed in quarantine upstairs with 'tother birds.
Now as you probably know the Mynah's capacity for mimicry is considerable. and the language from this bird was appalling. And the accent was the old lady's!
Roy.
I'll tell you one story that is true.
An elderly lady brought an Indian Hill Mynah in one day that she wanted to sell.
Nice bird, the Mynah, so I bought it and placed in quarantine upstairs with 'tother birds.
Now as you probably know the Mynah's capacity for mimicry is considerable. and the language from this bird was appalling. And the accent was the old lady's!
Roy.
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And ... Why are there no asprins found in the jungle ?
Because the parrots-eat-em-all
groan
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And ... Why are there no asprins found in the jungle ?
Because the parrots-eat-em-all
groan
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Here's a wee extract of a very large 'Rettie' scoffing up a deer.
This snake will be 20 foot plus, in the film.
Herpetology is fascinating..
fantastic creatures, snakes ... not slimy or anything like that..
They're exothermic, so actually quite 'like' being on you, for the heat.
I used to take a 6 foot Ball python shopping , wrapped round my arm, ... people got used to seeing it with you, and kids would come and ask questions etc, which was great.
Cant do things like that so much nowadays, more's the pity.....
have a lookie-see, if your interested in them :
http://de.truveo.com/Attenborough-Fully ... 3578880268
:wink:
This snake will be 20 foot plus, in the film.
Herpetology is fascinating..
fantastic creatures, snakes ... not slimy or anything like that..
They're exothermic, so actually quite 'like' being on you, for the heat.
I used to take a 6 foot Ball python shopping , wrapped round my arm, ... people got used to seeing it with you, and kids would come and ask questions etc, which was great.
Cant do things like that so much nowadays, more's the pity.....
have a lookie-see, if your interested in them :
http://de.truveo.com/Attenborough-Fully ... 3578880268
:wink:
woodbloke
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My daughter used to keep a small Royal Python...went by the name of 'Monty' The old ones are the best :lol: - Rob
