Pythons

[Paleosuchus]

thought this was interesting;

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from the book The Complete Guide to the Care of Macropods

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Indian python with hog deer

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scrub python with pademelon inside its stomach
"The highlight over the two weeks was finding an Australian Scrub Python eating a Red-legged Pademelon, which is a small rainforest kangaroo, (not a highlight for the poor unfortunate pademelon!). When we found it on the edge of our orchard it only had the leg sticking out to identify the prey item. The python was probably 3-3.5m."

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http://kingfisherparkbirdwatchers.blogspot.com/2014/04/20th-april-2014-kingfisher-park_20.html

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Scrub python ate a rooster
"Pythons are known to eat strange things. Porcupines and alligators come to mind. A python in Australia decided to eat a rooster, but it seems the rooster would have got the best of the python had it not been for Dr. Nikki Tapp at Marlin Coast Veterinary Hospital in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. 

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The python would have probably died from an infection. The wild reptile was brought into the hospital October 26 with a puncture wound and a huge belly. The large rooster that the python ate had an equally large spur that pierced the skin of the python, from inside the python’s belly. 

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Dr. Nikki Tapp had to open the snake up and took a pair of surgical scissors to cut the entire foot off the rooster, leaving the rest of the rooster in the belly of the python. Tapp said on Facebook that the snake is doing well and will be released once it finishes digesting the huge bird."
http://www.reptilesmagazine.com/australian-vet-removes-rooster-foot-that-punctured-pythons-belly-trending/

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Olive python eats a big bat
In the early hours of the morning, before we were up, a young and rather small Olive Python snaked her way up a tree in the Nitmiluk NP campsite, and caught a fruit bat. When I saw her she was being mobbed by greedy ravens intent on stealing her meal, and possibly even eating her too. I chased them off … a ranger appeared and agreed that the ravens would damage the python if they could.

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She has her catch and is beginning the task of loosening her jaws to swallow the rather awkwardly shaped bat.

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Olive turns her head upside down to begin with. I think she is relieved that by now a group of campers have gathered around her and are keeping the pecking ravens at bay.

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Notice how Olive has squeezed the bat very tightly, an important part of bringing the meal inside her body where it can be slowly digested.

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And now she has ingested the bat, whose wings stick out rather painfully from a different angle … and you can see the the ravens have been back to attack her … there are several bloody spots. What a hazardous life for a python! Soon after this photo she would begin to move back to a sheltered place, and we would be on the road to Kununurra, over 500 km away to the west. Last photo for this post, moonrise over the mini Bungle Bungles at Kununurra."
https://dadirridreaming.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/kt-day-3-olive-python-eats-fruit-bat/ Reply