<b>The snake's death may be down to a combination of what it
ate and stress from human interaction
A python died after eating a porcupine at the Lake Eland
Game Reserve in South Africa.</b>


(From CNN)— A huge snake's big meal in South Africa has turned
out to be its last.
After the death of a 12-foot-long African Rock Python, park
rangers opened its stomach. Inside they found a 30-pound
porcupine.


Its needle-sharp quills seem to have punctured the snake's
digestive tract and may have contributed to its death.
The engorged snake was first spotted by a mountain biker in
the Lake Eland Game Reserve, about 100 miles south of
Durban, two weeks ago.
Visitors showed up at the park to observe the snake and to
speculate what it had eaten. On its Facebook page, the
Game Reserve had its own guesses: a small warthog or
impala calf.


When the snake died this week, curious park rangers
performed a necropsy, or autopsy, on the animal.
Though the exact cause of death is unknown, spectators and
the porcupine may be to blame.
"With all the human interaction, this could have caused
stress and the python would then regurgitate the meal up
with all the quills causing a problem," said game reserve
manager Jennifer Fuller.


Pythons, which are some of the largest snakes in the world,
kill their prey by constriction.
Some species are known to eat animals as large as antelope
or deer. Their prey is swallowed whole and may take days or
weeks to digest fully.
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Holy ghost FIRE

Do snakes excrete

Hmmm python

What killed it is right inside its stomach na...Abi na so dem create their stomach

correct prey.chop me and die

The snake ate porcupine

Greedy python! Lesson for all: over-feeding is not good......

Lol....good for de greedy snake...

True life story www.nairaland.com/2407045/getting-served-lagos-true-life

Thesame thing that kills Nigerian girls.

GREEDINESS.

The last supper

Longer throat