Pet python kills two children
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Without a doubt, but snakes cant get their mouths open wide enough to eat an antelope at will. it has to be stretched and guided, so when going from our head you will ave our have our shoulders making it incredibly hard if not impossible to consume us. Why else do you think we never hear of cases of snakes eating humans? Laying down wouldn't you agree an antelope is a lot larger than us?
to make it simpler to understand its easier for a snake to eat" < "than to eat o{
this is not the first time this has happened .....
http://www.bramptonguardian.com/new...n-inquest-called-for-python-ban-20-years-ago/
http://www.bramptonguardian.com/new...n-inquest-called-for-python-ban-20-years-ago/
That doesn't prove me wrong considering the snake in question didn't eat the kids and im giving a reasonable explanation why it couldn't. Just do the research and im sure you will find many articles giving my explanation.
At least in the Brampton case, it was the owner who died and not some innocent.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC61-umSBhA
When a snake attacks its prey it first constricts it...Squeezes it...breaking bones and compacting it to the point where IT COULD consume a human...shoulders would break and bones would snap making the prey very malleable for the snake to work its jaws around....
Are you serious, or just being stubborn and can't admit your wrong? You are absolutely wrong, the snake in question can eat, or swallow as the right term, a whole child!
Quote from the article fuji provided:
"The snake squeezed tighter and tighter around him until his eyes closed and his head fell back so I thought he was dead or had fainted. Then the snake's mouth opened very, very wide and started to swallow him from the head down - his clothes and everything. It all took about three hours because it was dark when we saw it slither away and we finally came down from the tree."
Just swallow your pride and admit your wrong, it's ok.
Something stinks here. As I mentioned this morning, it doesn't add up that a snake can scale up a vertical ventilation shaft made of smooth metal. There's a cover up of some sort.
I also said that it's possible for the snake to strangle both boys at the same time, it's just as easy to get the snake's body around two bodies as one.
I don't understand your hostility. I gave a reasonable explanation to why the snake didn't consume the children. That explanation is the reason why snakes devouring humans is incredibly hard if not impossible. Just do your research. I don't follow how I'm being stubborn.
More recent news has revealed that the snake was not legally owned and had been kept in the apartment, not the store below.
That said these snakes are good climbers and typically drop onto their victims from above. It is fifteen feet long and can support itself up quite a distance against a wall especially if it can get a grip on something.
Still is odd that it killed twice.
That is why you are being stubborn... or just plain blind...
Ample evidence has been brought forth that indicates that it is NOT incredibly hard and NOT impossible for a snake like this to devour a human, especially a pre-teen child.
A snake can devour an antelope... but cannot crush a rib cage of a child sufficiently to be able to ingest it?? Get real!
These types of snakes are generally not aggressive. In fact, constrictors, especially large ones, are pretty lazy hunters. They are opportunistic and will wait for a long time silently for prey to pass by, then it will strike. Once they have eaten, again, they are pretty lazy and tend to just find somewhere comfortable.
The only plausible, although unlikely situation, is that the snake was cold and wrapped itself around one child for warmth. When the child died and stopped giving off heat, it may have moved to the next. Maybe someone who knows anatomy can comment on how long bodies retain heat after death?
The only plausible, although unlikely situation, is that the snake was cold and wrapped itself around one child for warmth. When the child died and stopped giving off heat, it may have moved to the next. Maybe someone who knows anatomy can comment on how long bodies retain heat after death?
That snake is going up a block wall which isn't smooth, even a raccoon can scale a brick or block wall as they have enough grip. However, having seen several vids I can see how a snake can actually stand up on its own strength without any wall supporting it. This snake is long enough to go up a floor on its own strength and then move laterally on the ceiling.
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