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python swallows hyena?
Topic Started: Jul 28 2014, 03:27 PM (2,328 Views)
retic
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http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000088383

i find this questionable because the python was said to be only 9 ft long. however, pythons have swallowed very large prey items before. a good example would be the reticulated python swallowing young cow video.
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VenomousDragon
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Much like canines hyenas lack the correct morphology to properly defend themselves against constricting snakes even much smaller than themselves so assuming a hyena was successfully coiled around their isn't much outside of dying that it can do however actually swallowing an animal as large as a hyena is surprising
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Black Ice
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Looks like python beat hyena
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Grimace
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a 9 foot python is not swallowing a hyena, unless its a little baby or something.
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RojJones
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Huge python can easily eat hyena.
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retic
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well, the article doesn't mention what type of hyena it was. it could of been a striped hyena. they live in kenya, don't they? either way, still impressive for a 9 ft python.
Edited by retic, Jul 29 2014, 02:43 AM.
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bitisgabonica
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that would have been a very small hyena to be eaten by a 9 footer!
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Ceratodromeus
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Think this can go here as well as the python kills thread
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ImperialDino
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Mar 7 2017, 01:09 PM
Think this can go here as well as the python kills thread
Hyena could have already been dead.
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Ceratodromeus
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Probably wasn't. guess you need to know a thing about snakes and their predatory behavior to understand that though.
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