Giant Snake Eats Itself To Death After Being Punctured From

Giant Snake Eats Itself To Death After Being Punctured From The Inside By Its Porcupine Meal

When a python is near his desired prey, he rapidly uses his teeth to seize the animal then proceeds to coil his body around the prey, preventing breathing from continuing, and therefore triggering suffocation. This constriction promptly kills the animal. Finally, it will devour its prey.

Snakes will devour anything they can, even if it is larger than them or even its own kind. But there is one particular snake who eats itself to death, as it devoured the wrong meal.

In South Africa, a mountain biker discovered a 13 ft African rock python lying next to a cycle track at Lake Eland Game Reserve. The snake have eaten something huge which is obvious because of its bloated belly.

The snake is already dead when the reserve managers found it beneath a rocky ledge, so they dissected its belly to see what's inside the big predator.

Surprisingly, a porcupine weighing 30 lbs punctured the python inside with its razor-sharp quills while digesting it.

Jennifer Fuller, the reserve general manager said the snake might had fallen off a rocky ledge which may have driven the quills into its digestive tract.

“The exact reasons for the snake’s death are not clear. We don’t know if it died beforehand, or whether the fall drove some of the quills into its digestive tract.” She added.

Most snake species rely on thermal or chemical sensory mechanisms to ambush prey at night instead of visual sight. This means the python did not see the threat of the porcupine’s spikes and devoured it, until it’s too late.