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. anyone have personal experience with a python?After a long-fought battle in Australia, a python bested a crocodile and swallowed the reptile whole.
Bystanders Marvin Muller and Tiffany Corlis managed to capture photos of the snake eating the crocodile over a span of several hours in Queensland.
The snake reportedly fought the croc for five hours in Lake Moondarra. Winning the fight, the python constricted its prey to death. The estimated 10-foot snake then dragged the 3-foot croc ashore and proceeded to swallow it whole in front of a group of onlookers.
"We saw the snake fighting with the crocodile -- it would roll the crocodile around to get a better grip, and coil its body around the crocodile's legs to hold it tight," Corlis said, describing the scene to BBC News. "After the crocodile had died, the snake uncoiled itself, came around to the front, and started to eat the crocodile, face-first."
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National Geographic identified the snake as an olive python and the croc as a Johnson's crocodile, both of which are native to Australia.
While it may look like the python took on too big of a meal, snake expert Bryan Fry of the University of Queensland’s School of Biological Science said it's not uncommon for a python... on a croc of this size.
"Crocs are more dangerous to catch but easier to sneak up on," Fry told the Brisbane Times. "The problem is they are risking being injured or killed, so they have to be judicious."
After its hefty meal, the python should be full for at least a month.
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i would have bet on the crocodile! python eats entire crocodile! (warning, freaky pictures) i would have guessed the crocodile would win. but no.... the python won. this took place in australia but here in the US florida is increasingly overpopulated by pythons. totally makes me glad it's way cold here in Minnesota where they can't survive. unless they learn to migrate south for winter
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SEE THAT COMMIN WITH HIS MORNIN CUP OF COFFEE!!! i am KING BAD!!!
you are NOT... 
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breakfast can wait | |
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No personal experience, closest I got was a rattlesnake in Mexico. Actually the friendliest snake in the world, because they warn you that they're dangerous!  | |
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Talk about a full gullet. I thought this was going to be the one that burst afterwards. I guess it isn't all that uncommon for alligators to be a python's meal. *makes note to stay away from anywhere pythons roam free* They some sneaky bastids. | |
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I thought crocodiles were badasses...  | |
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I have always been fascinated by repriles. Crocodiles and Snakes were my favorites as a kid. This is shit i loved too see as a kid Pistols sounded like "Fuck off," wheras The Clash sounded like "Fuck Off, but here's why.."- Thedigitialgardener
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it may seem gross... but it's fascinating how the snake does this. Manages to stretch it's body out that much. And, becomes a predator in his ''snakish' ways. While the crocodile is more a brute.
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Yikes! This is really creepy! "It's not nice to fuck with K.B.! All you haters will see!" - Kitbradley
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i have absolutely no idea how that snake could even waddle away from the scene | |
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What I want to know is who the hell would hang around there taking photos? I'd be off at the first sight of either of those two. "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin | |
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Nature is amazing!!!! mailto:www.iDon'tThinkSo.com.Uranus | |
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They're busy with each other, and the winner was obviously going to eat the loser. After five hours, both were probably ready to eat. That snake will find some place to lay up for about a week digesting it. It still won't need to eat for at least a month or more. I don't want you to think like me. I just want you to think. | |
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Standing around 5 hours watching those 2, while one of their brothers or sister sneaking up behind you. It wouldn't be me. | |
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