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Python caught on camera swallowing adult hyena (video)
8 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQ.....ature=youtu.be
Sadly, this appears to be all the video there is. The accompanying article lays out some details, but we only have their word for it: They THINK the python ambushed the hyena and they found it later with what they thought was a hyena bulge.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/0.....9881490044614/
Of course we only have their word on that, the python may have found a dead hyena and started to swallow it (snakes do eat carrion) and maybe the meal proved too large. It seems pretty likely, though, that the hyena ended up as a bulge. What a shame we don't have a complete video, this sort of thing is very rare! If the hyena is as large as they say (150 pounds) it's the single heaviest thing I've heard of a snake swallowing.
Sadly, this appears to be all the video there is. The accompanying article lays out some details, but we only have their word for it: They THINK the python ambushed the hyena and they found it later with what they thought was a hyena bulge.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/0.....9881490044614/
Of course we only have their word on that, the python may have found a dead hyena and started to swallow it (snakes do eat carrion) and maybe the meal proved too large. It seems pretty likely, though, that the hyena ended up as a bulge. What a shame we don't have a complete video, this sort of thing is very rare! If the hyena is as large as they say (150 pounds) it's the single heaviest thing I've heard of a snake swallowing.
I wanna be next mr snake iam much smaller >8)
Pythons and Anacondas usually prey on Antelope and gazelles and so on.
The largest thing I saw a video about was a python eating an alligator. It's visible on youtube, maybe filmed by national geographic.
So a hyena is nothing, but usually this snakes don't prey on them - so such a video is very rare, as you say.
Thanks for sharing this video, national geographic published such a video but not as long as this is.
And I think a size can be judged from the alligators. Do you know, which video I meant?
Maybe you can link to it.
This a good one. A python swallowing a live alligator. I can't judge the alligator's size well, but it may be about 4 feet long.
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