Someone please debunk this.... scary (graphic) ass snake

supposedly was eating sheep in Australia..... wtf is this thing with all these teeth?? Photoshop anyone??

http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=14866

What the heck is he doing?

he is missing a rear leg.

or groom.

Cute.

dentures....

How big is that bad boy?? The only snake I can think of that's big enough to eat sheep is a python...and I don't think they're indigenous to Australia. Might be an ex-pet. (Ha!)

that Schwartzenegger flick, forget the name....

To forget? I sure would if I found that in my back yard! Snakes are not my thang....

cloned if they turned up missing... and yes, it was Total Recall, which I apparrently do not have tonight. Rare.

It's rare I remember anything for longer than a few minutes, and a bloomin' miracle I even recall my name most days. And I'm young. -ish. :)

I think the question has been answered. Likely not a pet, but indigenous, so no need for repet. Much need for snake charmers though.

As an aside, why would anyone want to clone a pet? You'd only get the resemblance, not the personality!

is truly what you fall in love with, not the physical animal itself.

See, brain cells dying again! -- I forgot to say I like your mouse. (Assuming it's your mouse, since you mentioned above it's missing a leg.) Cute.

Okay, tell me where the leg went.....

almost into a coma and so forth and that little bugger dialed 911 for me. Another time, I was at the circus, and had the little fella in my pocket, when all of a sudden a rogue elephant decided to use me for a foot stool. The lil guy jumped from my shirt pocked and scared that elephant back into full submission, damn near into a fetal position, so when you have a critter as valuable as that, you just don't eat him all at once.

That was very funny! I needed a good laugh too.

Er...you're not really eating your mouse, are you?

Come to think of it, I'm beginning to doubt it's your mouse!!

;)

farmhouse and sees a three legged pig on the front porch, saved the farmers drowning daughter, held two robbers at bay in an upstairs bedroom til the police arrived.... yada yada yada.... funny that.

and all kinds of other nasty snakes. The pythons there don't get as big as the ones in SE Asia or Africa but they can get big enough to be dangerous.

the link says it was a rock python in Africa and it was posed that way after it was electrocuted on the fence. A 15-20 footer is definitely big enough to be dangerous to humans even without being venomous.

You answered all my questions. Double-ick. Thanks!

:(

While I know Australia has more than its fair share of nasty creepy crawlies, I never imagined pythons were among them. Ick.

So this was Africa, not Australia? Man, whoever's got those snakes is off my holiday wish-list.

If you want to get squicked out of existence, have a look at bat-eating centipedes:

http://www.youtube.com/v/mJiHDqE7cbo

and a bird-eating praying mantis:

http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/backyardbirds/hummingbirds/mantis-hummer.aspx?sc=birdwireJul2005

:)

You'd laugh to see the expression on my face. I'm still grimacing!

There's something about bugs and reptiles eating mammals that just gets my flesh a'crawlin'.

Thank you for sharing...I think....! :)

The snake simply isn't big enough to eat a sheep, sheep are pretty big. I'd guess this one would be lucky to get down a newborn lamb.

I can't vouch for the validity of the photo, as in where it was taken, since there has been some discussion over here (Aus) as to who found it. It was apparently an Army team although I don't believe the Army verified it.

BUT, it does look a lot like a Carpet Python. We get them around the house quite a bit up to almost 3 metres (almost 10 ft) long. And they do have teeth like that. They are quite quiet, you can normally touch them without too much trouble. As far as snakes in Australia go, this is completely harmless (we have 8 of the 10 most deadly snakes in the world)

I hate to pass on stuff like this as real when "in reality" someone could be tweaking the Matrix so to speak.

:shrug:

I get pretty country myself, sometimes. I was born and raised that way. :)

NEVER do that again!!!
:scared::scared::scared::scared::scared:

hesitant to click on it.

ewe.... faint of heart need not click.


http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm

Here's the actual source:http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm (warning: graphic photos of the snake slit open) The snake was found to have a full-grown impala ewe in its gullet. It actually happened in South Africa. The pictures of the snake apparently trying to bite the fence are misleading; the snake was "posed" that way in order to show the open mouth. It was electrocuted as it tried to squeeze under the fence, being significantly larger in girth than when it entered.
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Big snakes can eat sheep, pigs and other large creatures. The teeth are hooked like that so the prey can't escape (not that they are usually able after constriction) and they keep the meal going down in the right direction. My friend had a 14 foot reticulated python. Was mostly gentle but sometimes would mistake him for food when it got really hungry, packs a nasty bite.

open.