Posted on 02/09/2017 5:51:23 AM PST by C19fan
A huge python was ripped to shreds by a pack of furious wild boars seeking revenge after the snake ate one of their young.
At least eight of the wild beasts descended on the reptile after he slithered into their home and gobbled up a piglet.
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I wouldnt put too much faith in the hogs killing the snake out of revenge, I’ll be 100 against a dollar that they ate the snake. Snakes are a delicacy to pigs.Hell, they probably would have eaten the bay pig if they could have caught it.
Me thinks a little too much projection. Pigs don’t need any motivation beyond hunger to do this.
In before the moose bit my sister jokes.
Wonder why that thought just came across my mind?
Instead of killing feral cats, neuter them, feed them python meat for two weeks and then release them in the Everglades with tracking devices. Cats are ferocious and wily hunters. Soon there would be a check on the python population. They would find and decimate python nests and even win a few battles with adult pythons.
Good idea.
Hogs DEARLY love to eat snakes. If you have ever seen a razorback face off against a venomous rattlesnake, you could appreciate how the pigs do it just for the sport. You would not think such a bristly, stiff-walking creature could move with such quickness and grace while dodging the strikes from the rattlesnake. Pigs do not just rip and slash with their tusks, they also bound in the air and come down all four feet all over the body of the snake, shredding the carcass of the snake with their very pointy trotters. The snake stops moving quite quickly.
And even if the snake attempts to deliver a venomous strike, the rough and tough hide of the pig resists such a puncture wound. Even if there is a puncture and the venom is injected, it is held in the subcutaneous fat layer and does not easily enter the blood stream from there.
Pigs were MADE to be killing machines, and only our superior height and ability to apply technology keeps them from using US as part of their food chain.
Coolest thing I’ve seen in a while.
True. I have read accounts of small children falling into hog pens while slopping the hogs, and being eaten. “Course this was back in the early days of America when children had to work same as everyone else.
You would if you've ever had to climb a tree to get away from one!.............
Yep, they used to use pigs to clear out areas infested with rattlers in the US.
Russian boars all over florida..yea they can get mean quick.l
Wasn’t Gus McCrae fond of the snake eating pigs in Lonesome Dove? Kind of like an American mongoose....
That's quite a bit of trouble to go to if these cats are only going to kill one out of ten snakes, isn't it?
Geez, even ground squirrels will kill a rattlesnake, and they’re much smaller than a pig.
Great, as long as the cats only eat pythons.
“Ha, ha, charade you are”
Pigs were “angry” and “seeking revenge”.
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