In Queensland, Australia, a video was captured at a caravan park of a 17-foot python devouring
a fully-grown kangaroo whole.
Snakes have specialised jaws that allow them to consume prey as much as 100 times their
size, so this kangaroo was no problem for the python.
In the footage, the hind legs and tail of the kangaroo can be seen protruding from the
python’s mouth as it slowly digests what’s left of the kangaroo’s lifeless carcass.
This was not the only case where a snake has eaten a kangaroo, as guests at a dinner party
were greeted outside by a python swallowing a kangaroo whole.
A 12-foot pet Burmese python called “Houdini” almost died after making an electrical blanket
disappear, well… by swallowing the queen-sized blanket including the power cord and control
box.
The electrical blanket was kept inside the snake’s cage in order to keep it warm and
the owner of the snake believed that the blanket must have somehow got tangled up in the snake’s
rabbit meal.
The blanket’s wiring extended through about 8 feet of the python’s digestive tract but
fortunately for the pet python, veterinarians were able to save its life by removing the
electrical blanket in a surgery procedure that lasted two hours.
A green anaconda was spotted on a shallow river bed in Brazil consuming what appeared
to be a cow.
Others have said that the animal in question was a capybara, the largest rodent in the
world native to South America, however, we will leave that for you to decide.
Either way, the anaconda bit off more than it could chew with its enormous catch and
ended up regurgitating the whole undigested meal before making a quick escape.
It is a rare case that a human is eaten by a snake.
However, back in 2002 a 10-year-old boy in Durban, South Africa was reportedly swallowed
whole by a 20-foot African Rock Python, making this the first ever recorded man-eating incident
for its species.
Friends of the snake’s victim, who were with him at the time, climbed and hid up mango
trees for safety and helplessly watched in terror as the 20-foot python wrapped itself
around the boy and squeezed the life out of him.
The python then proceeded to swallow the 10-year-old boy head-first over a 3-hour period before
slithering away towards a nearby river to digest its prey.
As mentioned earlier, snakes are capable of eating prey much larger than themselves and
in 2005 a snake did just that by consuming a full-sized alligator.
A 13-foot Burmese python in Everglades National Park in Florida attempted to digest a 6-foot
American alligator, however, it did not end very well for it.
The colossal meal proved to be the snake’s last as the undigested alligator ripped through
the stomach of the python causing it to stick out from the mid-section of the python’s
body.
Lumps of alligator skin was also found in the python’s gastrointestinal tract.
Sometimes it’s just best to pick on something your own size.