Analis said:I remember that a FT issue had related something about a boy being eaten by a large python, in a southern african country. Now, don't ask me which one...
Isis177 said:I always thought snakes ate rats and mice.
lBurmese python suspected of eating neighbourhood cats caught in Florida
The 120-pound snake is the prime suspect in the mysterious disappearance of several cats from a Florida neighbourhood
cat-eating Florida python
Officers pose with the 12-foot python Photo: Port St. Lucie Police
A Burmese python suspected of eating multiple cats from the same neighbourhood has been caught in the US, police say.
The 12-foot-long snake was discovered resting in some waist-high underbrush by police in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
Officers responded to reports of an “extremely large snake”, suspected of feasting on several neighbourhood cats, in an empty plot of land.
A number of pet cats have mysteriously disappeared from the area over the past nine months, police say. ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... lorida.htm
SNAKE SNAFFLED
USA: A nine-foot Colombian boa constrictor named Trinity that escaped from its cage in the US has been found after two days on the loose.
Trinity did not appear to have travelled far after being spotted in the garage that holds the snake’s cage in Nampa, Idaho.
Worried neighbours with small pets and children went on alert after the owner reported to Nampa police that the snake had disappeared and had not eaten for three weeks. The owner says he plans to buy a better cage.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/quir ... 86901.html
oldrover said:I was hoping you'd pop along and settle this. I didn't even know that anyone had been eaten by a Boa Constrictor. Any chance you can point me to the source of this.
Hundreds of years ago, eight children were taken from a village in Borneo - by "dragons". What were these terrifying beasts?
Several centuries ago, a group of Borneo natives left their villages and headed deep into the jungle, searching for a home away from the Dutch colonialists who had begun spreading across their island. Eventually, they found a nice spot in the lowland rainforests near the mountains in Borneo's centre. They built houses and cultivated crops, and caught fish from the Burak river. All was well. Then children began vanishing.
Not the boa constrictor but large pythons and anacondas.I was hoping you'd pop along and settle this. I didn't even know that anyone had been eaten by a Boa Constrictor. Any chance you can point me to the source of this.
Good to know slenderman has a natural predator.BTW a 20+' reticulated python has killed a slender man. They break the shoulders 1st.
Constrictors do attack both man and beast, they can be nasty buggers.
26 foot reticulated python caught in Malaya. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...ever-recorded/ar-BBrBnXf?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=iehp
Enough to give you constipation.
A five-year-old boy was shocked to discover a python inside his toilet when he lifted up the lid.
He was "frantic" when he found it in the bathroom at home in Southend, Essex, his mother Laura Cowell said.
Specialists from pet shop Scales and Fangs came to the rescue, removing the harmless 3ft (91cm) baby royal python.
"It smelt of bleach and a bit toilet-y," Ethan Pinion from the store said. The snake "most likely came up the u-bend" and is expected to recover fully. ...
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-41122975