Vondata:
OMG! Hw cn a sane Man eat wild Snake. I lyk d way it killd d Dog, I h8 dogs.

tobimillar:
I thought pythons are non venomous snakes? How did it kill d dog?? Something is not right

lekjons:
Nigerians'll never learn, so because it killed ur dog so u must kill it too?.. jungle justice!, u can't grab hold of it and take it to the police station.. huh?

Vondata:
OMG! Hw cn a sane Man eat wild Snake. I lyk d way it killd d Dog, I h8 dogs.

tobimillar:



The snake strangle that kind of big dog? D snake isn't that big either... look at the pix again

Enouwem:
Picture of the dog killed by the snake

VeeBabs:
This is an adult Rock Python, Africa's largest snake and one of the six largest snake species in the world (along with the
green anaconda, reticulated python , Burmese python, Indian python , and amethystine python ), specimens may approach or exceed 6 m (20 ft).

Like all boas, they are not venomous. They kill their prey by constriction. However, contrary to popular belief, their killing mechanism is not by "tight squeezing until it dies".

Actually, what they do is wrap their long, muscular bodies around the prey (e.g. a dog, goat, antelope or YOU) and each time the animal exhales, the snake would tighten the noose a little more, further reducing the animal's thoracic (chest) volume available for another breath intake.

The animal then finds it progressively harder and harder to take in a full breath, as breathing gets shorter and shallower.

The python keeps doing this until the animal can no longer breath in. Death occurs my asphyxiation (lack of oxygen) and not by crushing force, as people widely believe.

What this means is that, you could survive a python's hold if you could wear/wrap your chest and ribs with a non-compressible "cage" or something like that, that will keep your chest open enough for breath intake.

Now, some animals can pretend to be dead, and stop breathing, so if the python lets go of its grip at this point, the animal would quickly run away. Therefore, pythons don't just wait until the animal can no longer breathe. They have the ability to sense the pulse (heart beat) of the prey, helping them better determine time of death, so as to let go and begin the swallowing process.

This "heart check" technique has been reportedly used by pythons against some crocodiles (who can hold their breaths very well).

So if a python is holding you (yes, I mean YOU) and you pretend to stop breathing (thinking you're smart), you would be fooling yourself. So long as your precious heart is still beating under its curled, sensitive grip, the snake's body, acting like a very long doctor's stethoscope, is telling it in real time that this stupid dude (you) is still alive.

It won't let go. Until you do.

But this is "just" a Rock Python. Pray that you don't ever encounter the Reticulated Python (longest snake on earth). You would probably die of FEAR before it even finishes wrapping you up like an Easter gift, or like Mega Plaza shawarma!

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Rock python photos below... Note the yellowish back and whitish belly, similar to the photos the OP originally posted.

JuanDeDios:

Why d'you love this snake so much? Abi you're related to Sakobi the Snake Girl?

lekjons:

VeeBabs:
This is an adult Rock Python, Africa's largest snake and one of the six largest snake species in the world (along with the
green anaconda, reticulated python , Burmese python, Indian python , and amethystine python ), specimens may approach or exceed 6 m (20 ft).

Like all boas, they are not venomous. They kill their prey by constriction. However, contrary to popular belief, their killing mechanism is not by "tight squeezing until it dies".

Actually, what they do is wrap their long, muscular bodies around the prey (e.g. a dog, goat, antelope or YOU) and each time the animal exhales, the snake would tighten the noose a little more, further reducing the animal's thoracic (chest) volume available for another breath intake.

The animal then finds it progressively harder and harder to take in a full breath, as breathing gets shorter and shallower.

The python keeps doing this until the animal can no longer breath in. Death occurs my asphyxiation (lack of oxygen) and not by crushing force, as people widely believe.

What this means is that, you could survive a python's hold if you could wear/wrap your chest and ribs with a non-compressible "cage" or something like that, that will keep your chest open enough for breath intake.

Now, some animals can pretend to be dead, and stop breathing, so if the python lets go of its grip at this point, the animal would quickly run away. Therefore, pythons don't just wait until the animal can no longer breathe. They have the ability to sense the pulse (heart beat) of the prey, helping them better determine time of death, so as to let go and begin the swallowing process.

This "heart check" technique has been reportedly used by pythons against some crocodiles (who can hold their breaths very well).

So if a python is holding you (yes, I mean YOU) and you pretend to stop breathing (thinking you're smart), you would be fooling yourself. So long as your precious heart is still beating under its curled, sensitive grip, the snake's body, acting like a very long doctor's stethoscope, is telling it in real time that this stupid dude (you) is still alive.

It won't let go. Until you do.

But this is "just" a Rock Python. Pray that you don't ever encounter the Reticulated Python (longest snake on earth). You would probably die of FEAR before it even finishes wrapping you up like an Easter gift, or like Mega Plaza shawarma!

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Rock python photos below... Note the yellowish back and whitish belly, similar to the photos the OP originally posted.

tobimillar:



I want to believe


Because that snake doesn't look too big to kill that big dog