Python Eats Porcupine, Regrets It Later (Here's Why)

Yahoo!News ^ | June 27, 2015 | Elizabeth Palermo

[Kaslin]

Ever wonder what might happen if a python ate a porcupine? Well, wonder no more. One of these giant snakes — which kill prey by suffocating it and then consuming it whole — recently dined on a porcupine and didn't live to brag about it.

On June 14, a cyclist riding along one of the mountain bike trails at the Lake Eland Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, spotted a very engorged snake. The cyclist snapped a few photos of the gluttonous python and posted them to social media, where they quickly attracted the attention of locals who wanted to see the python themselves. Lots of people came to the park in the following days just to view the swollen snake, according to Jennifer Fuller, general manager at the game reserve.

[Clay Moore]

Maybe we need to let a few million giant porcupines loose in the Everglades to take care of the invasive python problem. What could possibly go wrong? (^;

[denydenydeny]

If you read the fuller version of the story in the Daily Mail, that is exactly what happened.

[Buttons12]

If something harassed/bothered the snake enough to make it want to flee, the snake would regurgitate the porcupine to make it easier to do so. Learned a painful and fateful lesson.

Be wise as serpents. If you think you may have swallowed a porcupine, STAY CALM. And this too shall pass.

[Rodamala]

I’ve had damned mesquite thorns puncture the tread of my tire... more than once!

[Riley]

Rough way to go. (shudder)