I received couple of pics of this snake through e-mail, it looks like it gobbled up something quite big. Is it an Anaconda? Somebody please fill me in.

Thanks,
BC

The other pic.

My dad got those pictures from an email from his sister i'll see if there is any story or info on it

Looks like a huge python that's just swallowed a young deer or pig or something.

All i could find was it was a Rock Python and it was found at a farm in South Africa.

I think Ruby gets a full 10 points it looks like an African Rock Python to me just after eating an Antelope or something similar.

African Rock Python

Here's the story on that one: http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-python.htm

Nice find Redneck... damn they killed the poor snake and cut it up.

Definetely it had lunch before the pic.

how large was it?I hate snakes so i could not stand looking at it!

he looks pissed

ya I would be too if you fenced me up when I got to take a huge hariy dump in da pond

isis... based on the link Redneck found it said the total size was over 4 metres.

man those are some cool pics, it's a shame that it got caught on that eletric fence. But man those pics are cool.

Did you check rednecks link? they actually cut it open which even more of a shame.

wouldn't want that thing to be looking at me.

Thanks Redneck, I googled yesterday and found this story, I was about to post the link but I saw you already beat me to it.

The fangs of this snake look really mean, I guess they are used to hook on to the prey. I wonder if they eject any kind of neurotoxins into their prey to paralyze them or merely suffocate and crush them to death with brute force.

The way I read that article I think it implied that the snake was dead after getting tangled in that electric fence, so they probably cut it open just out of curiosity.

what did it eat?

It had eaten a full grown Impala ewe, here's the pic...

I had one just like that as a pet for over 10 years. I mostly fed it "roadkill" cats and rabbits. As far as pythons go, these are usually more agressive than Indian and Burmese Rock Pythons, which make better pets. Mine was no exception.

Yep, people will always cut them open to see what they have eaten. That's exactly what happened which led to the ridiculous recent myth of the alligator-eating, "exploding" python.