Lizzy's Amazing Animal Facts


These are just a few animal facts that I found to be really amazing. 

If you don't know a lot about animals, but would like to learn about them, then... BITE    into these facts!  


?  What was the largest snake snack ever eaten?

            An African rock python swallowed an impala antelope.  You think it chewed it up first, don't you?  No...  It swallowed it whole!!

With the photographic evidence from the Everglades that the Burmese python can kill and swallow an alligator, members of my research laboratory and I set to see how well a python could swallow an alligator and how long it would take the snake to digest the alligator. From our colony of Burmese python we enticed an 800 gram snake to swallow a 200 gram alligator, already dead. To our surprise, the python easily swallowed the alligator, taking only about 15 minutes to do so.

Each day after the python had swallowed the alligator we transported the snake to a local veterinary clinic and X-rayed the snake’s midsection. The X-rays revealed clearly the daily disintegration of the alligator’s skeleton, first the skull, then the shoulder regions and forelimbs, followed by the pelvic region, hind limbs, and tail, all completed within nine days. So, not only can a Burmese pythons swallow an alligator, it can also digest it.

Resource: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/channel/blog/2006/09/explorer_python.html


You Decide!          Fact of Fake?

 

A snake can go for more than three years without food.

check in again next week for the answer.


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