Florida biologists prove invasive Burmese pythons are swallowing deer, alligators whole

ABC News ^ | 1 Nov 2024 | Julia Jacobo

[DUMBGRUNT]

By the time they got to the scene, the python had swallowed about half of the deer, and it took about 30 more minutes for it to consume the other half, Bartoszek said. Had the deer still been alive, the scientists would have intervened. Instead, they got a front-row seat to the intricacies of the food chain.

"For us biologists, this was the most intense thing we've ever seen on assignment," he said. "This was as primal as it gets."

Burmese pythons can consume meals equivalent to 100% of their body mass,

[DUMBGRUNT]

A friend who worked in South Africa for years had a news clipping about a local farmer who didn't answer his phone at lunchtime.

His wife found him entwined by some constrictor and he had CHEWED deep into the snake!!!

He said words could not describe how tough the Boers are when need be. My friend is a bean pole and always describes the HUGE leg calves of the Boers.

[wildcard_redneck]

Tropical invasive species do well in Florida because it is an empty tropical ecosystem that has not recovered its fauna from the last glacial maximum that killed off Florida’s tropical species.

[sauropod]

"For us biologists, this was the most intense thing we've ever seen on assignment," he said. "This was as primal as it gets."

Voyeurs.

[ClearCase_guy]

Burmese pythons can consume meals equivalent to 100% of their body mass

"Amateurs"

-- Joey Chestnut

[Erik Latranyi]

Pictures and videos of this have been online for over a decade.

But now it is real because biologists witnessed it.

[one guy in new jersey]

“Had the deer still been alive, the scientists would have intervened. Instead, they got a front-row seat to the intricacies of the food chain.”

Why intervene at all.

Admittedly, New Jersey is now totally overrun by deer.

Unless This Guy is mistaken, a few of them are actually on the ballot for local offices.

Can we import a few Burmese Pythons over here?

[V_TWIN]

Not surprising to me......have you ever see the deer here in Florida?.....not alot to ‘em.

[dfwgator]

Gators are going to be swallowing bulldogs today.

[Magnum44]

[libh8er]

Would a python have trouble swallowing Chris Christie ?

[dfwgator]

You left out the part where Gary says, “No, you didn’t see this, turn the page!”

[metmom]

Why have an annual hunt?

Just declare open season on them all year long.

[V_TWIN]

Well, they would certainly be literally beating the odds.

Last time i checked UGA is favored by 14 and a 1/2

[Magnum44]

[dfwgator]

I’ve got a good feeling. DJ is going to be unleashed. And that traitor, Etienne, will get his.

[dfwgator]

LOL. I think that first one though wasn’t published.

[V_TWIN]

“that traitor, Etienne”

Freakin’ transfer portal......whoever thought that up oughta be stood up against a wall.

[going hot]

Christie would swallow the snek

[whitney69]

KInd of the opposite of partial birth abortion even though the result is the same.

wy69

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”Would a python have trouble swallowing Chris Christie ?”

“The female python weighed about 115 pounds”

Guessing, that Christie could weigh over twice the snake’s weight, he should be safe.