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Old 11-03-2011, 02:44 PM   #27
Clodfobble
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Originally Posted by ZenGum
Yeah, but somehow the snake has to go from sneaking up to "gotchya". It's the moment where the snake gets enough loops around the deer to hold it that I'm having trouble imagining.

Well, it obviously happens. There's that African Rock Python picture, IIRC that thing had a Thompson's gazelle in it.

Smaller snakes have poison. That I understand. Sneak up, strike, wait a few moments.
We've had several smaller pythons as pets in years past. (The smaller pythons still have no venom.) They can move very fast. Skip the first 15 seconds:



The really big ones will often hide in trees and strike downward when the prey walks underneath.
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