Python stalks, eats family dog in front of kids

murderdogger

omg there's a video

mmm, Mexican food

that was my first thought, too, dan. But alas, it is not video of awesome exotic beast consuming pitiful insult to all other dog breeds.

The family that owned the dog had actually seen it in the dog's bed but that didn't raise any http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif?

It's a video of John Lott Jr. arguing that widespread gun ownership would have allowed the dog to purchase and defend itself with a firearm as soon as it learned it was being stalked

two weeks ago: Alligator eats dog at park

I think this happens a lot in Florida.

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python swallows gator in the everglades

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2005/10/07/0610python2_wideweb__430x295.jpg

pythons are badass!

i don't understand exactly what i am looking at in the python/gator picture.

the python basically exploded. the thing in the bottom right is the gator's tail and the thing jutting outwards to the top right of the pic is the rest of the pyton, i think.

i read some news item on how escaped pythons in the USA have started breeding in the wild. they're colonizing!

the python is basically in the shape of a C

Snake coughs up entire hippo.

it's called a KNIFE and a FORK dudes

i read some news item on how escaped pythons in the USA have started breeding in the wild. they're colonizing!

I heard the same thing about Killer Bees heading to Florida in a 1977 episode of In Search Of, with Leonard Nimoy. Heading to Florida to kill all of us.

Daniel, I believe you are referring to this documentary.

Oh yeah! I hadn't thought about The Swarm for years. Yeah, that scared me at the time.

I was actually thinking about episode six of season one of In Search Of, which was 'A photographic report from Brazil on the behavior of the bees and genetic experiments underway to stop the savage swarms from reaching the U.S. Original broadcast: 1 May 1977'. Also scary. Nimoy said they were thinking of putting up these huge mesh nets along some border (Texas' eastern border, I think), to stop the deadly bees.

Venom Zoo.

Kuranda is nowhere near Brisbane btw.

This article in the SF Chronicle made it sound like giant pythons are headed straight from Florida to SF.

New Threat To Our Way of Life: Giant Pythons

The giant snakes are slithering from Florida toward the Bay Area, very slowly to be sure, but inexorably. And they can strangle and eat an entire alligator.

The U.S. Geological Survey released a map Wednesday showing that the Bay Area has comfortable climatic conditions for the python. It also said the reptile, which prefers to swallow its prey in one gulp, is "highly adaptable to new environments" and cannot be stopped.

The snakes weigh up to 250 pounds and slither at a rate of 20 miles per month, according to USGS zoologist Gordon Rodda. They are not staying put. In fact, one of them has already slithered about 100 miles toward San Francisco.

"We have not yet identified something that would stop their spreading to the Bay Area," Rodda said.

invasion usssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssa

the serpents shall inherit the lands

i didn't know that snakes stalked their prey for days. they must be good planners. if they're that good at planning, then there's no telling what they can accomplish together.

It also said the reptile, which prefers to swallow its prey in one gulp, is "highly adaptable to new environments" and cannot be stopped.

a really complex knot

just strap grenades to bunnies, leave 'em in the path of the snakes and you'll take care of 'em reptiles quick enuff

but they cannot be stopped!

they can be diverted

into the grand canyon

I assume that story about the drunk guy who tried to pick up a snake numerous times and kept getting bitten like over and over and is now paralysed has been posted on ilx before?

the grand canyon, filled with snakes.

that image is pwning my brane right now

it's arizona's problem now, son

if a python eats a slightly-smaller python, and another one eats that one, and you chop it in half, i bet it looks really freaky.

no no no wait PYTURDUCKEN

now, if the boas start their own invasion plans, we are going to be having some heavy duty reptile vs reptile carnage in the next few decades

unless the boas and pythons come together in a United Constrictor Front, then we are screwed

duck eat chicken, boa eat duck, turkey eat boa, python eat turkey. that's right, you've got

PYTURBODUCKEN

that's some convoluted fecal matter right there

Bigger version of the pic Jordan posted upthread:

http://i28.tinypic.com/2s63p13.jpg

oh wtf is that gator johnson

No wait, I just talked to a friend who said that he watched an hour long program about that snake, and the snake was supposedly injured or sick, and that's why it exploded.

I think it was a poor choice on the part of the python. When you're not feeling well it's not the time to eat a big meal! That python might still be with us if he had just chosen more wisely.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080229/ap_on_sc/snake_phobia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Two University of Virginia researchers believe that humans are genetically predisposed to be deathly afraid of snakes. Judy S. DeLoache, a U.Va. professor of developmental psychology, said she has a snake phobia, but wonders why. "The question was, where did that fear come from?"

She believes it's because snakes would have posed a significant threat to our ancestors, so a fear of snakes remains hardwired into human brains today.

DeLoache said an experiment she conducted with graduate student Vanessa LoBue proved that adults and preschool children have an extraordinary ability to quickly pinpoint snakes amid harmless distractions.

They conducted three experiments with 24 adults and 24 3-year-olds. Both groups were shown a large touch-screen computer monitor that displayed nine color photographs.

They asked half of the people to find the single image of a snake among non-threatening pictures of caterpillars, flowers or frogs. The second group was told to find the single photo of a single non-threatening item among eight images of snakes.

The researchers found that adults and children were much faster at discovering snakes than they were at locating non-threatening flora or fauna.

The finding that children saw the snakes as rapidly as adults is particularly fascinating, LoBue said, because preschool children tend to be fearless and are less likely to have had a negative experience with snakes.

DeLoache's and LoBue's findings will be published in the March issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

LoBue said she has found similar results when testing for an innate fear of spiders. Much like snakes, some spiders would have posed a deadly threat to pre-humans. That study is currently under peer review, she said.

"It's really neat," she said. "We have an evolutionary bias against snakes and spiders."

Virginia is home to three types of venomous snakes — copperheads, canebrake rattlesnakes and timber rattlers.

Julia Dixon, spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, thinks snakes have a bad rap, and said her agency spends time defending snakes.

"The general public out there thinks that the only good snake is a dead snake," Dixon said. But she notes that snakes are a key piece of the food chain because they eat mice, rats and other snakes.

Dixon said the easiest way to identify dangerous snakes in Virginia is to look into their eyes. Virginia's venomous snakes have vertical pupils, similar to a cat's eye, and harmless snakes have round pupils.

Either way, it is usually best to leave the snake alone, she said.

No SNAKES IN A DOG BASKET! type jokes?

That photo with the alligator is so gross. I'd forgotten just how gross 'till I saw the closeup.

Anyone find out what the dog in the original post was called? Found the family's name, but not the dog - it was Monty, wasn't it?

my friend's response to "badass snake eats a hippo"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9CvJ7NJEVc