Won't somebody think of the snakes?

[Serge]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4313978.stm

So quiet and dull in the shop this afternoon that I'm looking at the funny animal stories on the BBC News website. Well, not that funny from the snake's point of view, I guess. Eyes bigger than belly, etc. Love the line, 'The head of the python was missing'.

[pk1yen]

How was the head missing?! Where did it go? It must have been intact when it swallowed the Alligator, otherwise there'd be no peristalsis to get the thing down inside it.
And then presumably the alligator, in it's death throes, scratched at the inside of the snake-belly until it popped, releasing the Alligator but not quite enough for it to escape. So it can't have escaped and then bitten off the head.
Did the head come off like a snake made of Lego during the final bursting forth of froth and beast? Did another opportune head-hunter come along and grab the head while it was busy having been ripped apart?

WHERE DID IT GO?!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

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I got caught out by that 2 years ago. Channel 5 even made a FUCKING HELL LADS programme about it, as they would.

[Serge]

Ha! I didn't even notice that. Obviously a lot of bored shop assistants looking it up to send it into the top ten news stories this afternoon.

[Viero_Berlotti]

As the son of an amateur Herpetologist I can confidently say that there was no way that the snakes stomach "exploded" due to the size of the alligator, it's simply not possible. The most likely scenario is that hunters/poachers stumbled across the snake digesting it's meal. The mean and nasty people then cut the snake's head off and slit open it's stomach to see what was inside.

[Welshy]

Now that's what I call a bush-tucker challenge!! No but seriously I think maybe the snake died from nerves.

[confettiinmyhair]

Has anyone actually seen a snake in the wild? (In the UK and Ireland) There are meant to be grass snakes and adders about somewhere.

[Welshy]

Has anyone actually seen a snake in the wild? (In the UK and Ireland) There are meant to be grass snakes and adders about somewhere.

Well i'm from Wales and i've got a snake in my pants if you'd like to see/touch it?

[rudi]

Has anyone actually seen a snake in the wild? (In the UK and Ireland) There are meant to be grass snakes and adders about somewhere.

Yeah, lots. Hampshire is full (not literally) of the buggers.

[ThickAndCreamy]

I live in the suburbs of London and even I saw a snake in some incredibly pathetic woodland nearby a little while back.

[Cerys]

I've never seen one, and am therefore somewhat jealous.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Has anyone actually seen a snake in the wild? (In the UK and Ireland) There are meant to be grass snakes and adders about somewhere.

There are no snakes in Ireland. Saint Patrick chased them all off.

I saw a grass snake once, with a toad attempting to crawl out of its mouth. I'd watched Aliens not long before and thought it was a chest burster.

[Sovereign]

Has anyone actually seen a snake in the wild? (In the UK and Ireland) There are meant to be grass snakes and adders about somewhere.

Yeah there's adders in the woods near where I live, but you can't stick around and play with them, if they bite you it's bad news, they probably wont kill you but they can still fuck you up.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

I also found a slow worm in the garden once. But that's not a snake, of course.

[Big Jack McBastard]

Snake eats Hippo was a good one




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCZYBGApnI&feature=player_embedded
Being regurgitated, I think/hope, christ imagine dropping that bugger off at the pool. the fun starts at about 0:47


And one that scoffed a pregnant ewe.

[Cerys]

Did anyone else feel an odd sense of satisfaction as the hippo emerged?  Like watching a surreal birth.

[biggytitbo]

I have no sympathy for the snakes, they're just greedy. Don't they know there's people starving in Africa?

[rudi]

Tasty people...