Photographer captures incredible images of python swallowing an even bigger python

This was one hungry snake.

A photographer in Western Australia captured incredible images of an enormous python attempting to swallow an even bigger python. It might have been too big of a meal for the python, though, as it regurgitated the swallowed snake afterwards.

(WARNING: Graphic images below)

A python was seen regurgitating an even bigger python it attempted to swallow.A python was seen regurgitating an even bigger python it attempted to swallow.

Parry Creek Farm Tourist Resort and Caravan Park posted images of the python captured by Amanda Jongedyk on its Facebook page last Sunday.

The python was being relocated so it wouldn’t eat the chickens at the park, staff wrote.

“We saw he’d had a good feed of something and safely bagged him. Once he was out of the bag he started to regurgitate, that’s when we saw the tail,” park staff wrote.”It all happened very quick and he was off again safe and sound. Sadly he lost his lunch but we hope he grabs something else and the birds get his left overs.”

Pythons have been known to eat other snakes. Black-headed pythons, for example, seem to prefer eating other reptiles, including venomous snakes, according to the San Diego Zoo.

A constrictor, the python grabs its prey with its teeth, then quickly wraps coils of its body around the prey and squeezes. Once the prey is dead, the python begins the leisurely process of unfolding its jaw and swallowing the prey whole, usually head first, the San Diego Zoo said.

The python’s skull’s joints are able to flex and fold along with its extremely pliable skin to maximize the mouth space, allowing very large food items to pass through its esophagus. This is accomplished with rhythmic muscular contractions that pull the prey down the snake’s throat and into its stomach.

Pythons may eat rodents, birds, lizards, and mammals like monkeys, wallabies, pigs, or antelope. Once the meal is consumed, pythons look for a warm place to rest while their food is digested.

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By Stephanie Valera
(Source: geek.com; May 23, 2019; https://tinyurl.com/y3lwlljk)
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