Large Snakes

[hunck]

Man finds wife’s feet sticking out of python after she went missing​

A mother-of-five was killed and half-swallowed by a 30ft python as she walked alone through an Indonesian forest.

Siriati, 30, was on her way to meet her brother to go to the market together when the giant snake attacked near the village of Siteba, in Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi, on Tuesday morning.

When she didn’t turn up, the brother contacted Siriati’s husband Adiansya, 30, who retraced her route.

After spotting her sandals, he was horrified to see the python eating his wife around 16ft away, with her legs sticking out of its mouth.

He killed the snake and dragged Siriati out, but she was already dead.

 

[gordonrutter]

I really didn't know that pythons strike. And them being such large snakes, I didn't think they would move that quickly. I knew they squeezed and devoured their prey whole.

New nightmare fodder.

I have a pet snake called Bob. He is a Corn Snake and just over five foot long. When he strikes it is with lightning speed, he has bitten me twice. When he wraps around you even though he is small you can feel the power in him. Scale that up a bit and...

I have had a ten foot snake hung over my shoulders and the diameter of that was massive, it didn't really wrap itself with any strength but bearing in mind most of it is muscle I can see how they can take a person out. I use the same defence mechanism as Lord Mongrove.

 

[brownmane]

I have a pet snake called Bob. He is a Corn Snake and just over five foot long. When he strikes it is with lightning speed, he has bitten me twice. When he wraps around you even though he is small you can feel the power in him. Scale that up a bit and...

I have had a ten foot snake hung over my shoulders and the diameter of that was massive, it didn't really wrap itself with any strength but bearing in mind most of it is muscle I can see how they can take a person out. I use the same defence mechanism as Lord Mongrove.

I am not a reptile person in that I would never have one as a pet because I have no affinity with them.

However, I have picked up our garter snakes to move them out of harm's way. They are very muscular.

My one sister was bitten as a kid. I laughed because everyone knows to pick up a snake just behind its head. She didn't.

The native garter snake in my area of Ontario:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_garter_snake

 

[ramonmercado]

Birmingham Boa Alert.

An snake believed to be an escaped boa constrictor has been spotted several times in a park.

People were urged not to approach the reptile if they saw it in Ley Hill Park, Northfield, Birmingham, but report sightings to the RSPCA. The snake was about five feet (1.5m) long and not thought to be dangerous but should be left alone, the Friends of Ley Hill Park group said. One user of their Facebook page called the situation "scary" and the group advised dog walkers to keep an eye on their pets.Boa constrictors are not venomous but have been known to kill animals by squeezing them to death.

Several sightings in the park were reported last week, according to the friends group. Anyone who found a snake they believed not to be native to their area should keep a safe distance and call the RSPCA's helpline, a spokesperson for the charity said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lmnl2gdvo

 

[Frideswide]

Birmingham Boa Alert

I wonder if the number of people visiting the park have gone up or down?

 

[ramonmercado]

I wonder if the number of people visiting the park have gone up or down?

There have been a few disappearances in the area ...

 

[Peripart]

Birmingham Boa Alert.

An snake believed to be an escaped boa constrictor has been spotted several times in a park.

Is it time to trot out the "fascinating" etymological fact about the boa constrictor?

 

[Frideswide]

Is it time to trot out the "fascinating" etymological fact about the boa constrictor?

Yes! Make it so @Peripart !

which comes first, the boalas, the feather or the snake?

 

[Peripart]

Yes! Make it so @Peripart !

which comes first, the boalas, the feather or the snake?

My fact about the boa constrictor is that it's the only creature (I think!) whose common name in English is the same as its Latin name.

 

[ramonmercado]

Big appetite.

Photos show 10-foot Burmese python swallowing a reticulated python whole, eating the snake from the tail up in just 2 hours.

A Burmese python was seen eating a larger reticulated python on a wildlife farm in Bangladesh. (Image credit: Adnan Azad)

A Burmese python has been spotted attacking and swallowing a reticulated python. The unusual encounter could be the first known case of these species — two of the world's biggest snakes — preying on one another, scientists say.

Researchers in India observed the rare event in 2020, and images captured the moment the Burmese python (Python bivittatus) began feasting on the reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) from the tail up, while it was still alive. It took about two hours for the snake to be completely consumed, scientists reported in a research note published Aug. 20 in the journal Reptiles and Amphibians.

"It was a really unusual situation to find two pythons in the same area," study co-author Ashikur Rahman Shome, a wildlife ecologist at Dhaka University in Bangladesh, told Live Science.

When the scientists arrived, the 10-foot-long (3 meters) Burmese python was coiled around the slightly larger reticulated python's tail. The latter tried to fight back by constricting the Burmese python, but it eventually loosened its grip and was swallowed from the tail end up.

https://www.livescience.com/animals...ther-giant-snake-in-1st-of-its-kind-encounter

 

[gordonrutter]

My fact about the boa constrictor is that it's the only creature (I think!) whose common name in English is the same as its Latin name.

Personal bugbear but Scientific name not Latin name.

Tyrannosaurus rex
And I'm sure there is an Australian bird as well but I can't recall what it is off the top of my head.

And there are a few also rans such as the Gorilla which is Gorilla gorilla gorilla and the European Lynx is Lynx lynx lynx amongst others.

 

[Sollywos]

Photos show 10-foot Burmese python swallowing a reticulated python whole, eating the snake from the tail up in just 2 hours.

But that's just so mean! yeah yeah I know nature red in tooth, claw and coil. Actually is snakes blood red? ... I suppose it must be, have just never had cause to think about it before. I don't particulary want to think about it now actually.

Er 'thanks for posting' @ramonmercado, yes I know I didn't have to click on the link before getting my evening meal but I've suddenly lost my appetite!!! (Even though only vegetables are going to be killed, it's besides the point. Courgettes do look a little bit like sections of a snake. ha!ha!)

 

[Peripart]

Personal bugbear but Scientific name not Latin name.

Tyrannosaurus rex
And I'm sure there is an Australian bird as well but I can't recall what it is off the top of my head.

Fair point on the nomenclature!

As for T rex, you're right, and the same may be true of other dinosaurs. To be fair, I was only considering creatures living today.