Have you guys considered starting a Twitter account? The hyena researchers in the Ngorongoro Crater have an account that's pretty sweet: Looks like is available. While they are awesome pets they do need to be treated with respect and care. I keep snakes as pets, including some of the giant pythons and an anaconda. It's actually a much faster death than by strangulation. They squeeze prey hard enough to stop the flow of blood to the victim's brain which is why the prey loses consciousness quickly. A note about constrictor snakes though, they don't kill prey by strangulation, they do so using cardiac arrest. I,ve heard about several cases of Pythons preying on Larger Carnivors such as Leopardsīut had never seen any proof Untill Now (Y) How did the snake manage to get enough of itself around the hyena to start the strangulation, I wonder? I mean, sure, intellectually, I knew they were capable of swallowing large animals but it's another thing altogether to see it happen. Can you haunt the dens for a while to make sure all the cub's moms are still around? I would have bet the farm that the snake would have lost that battle. Super Hyena.you heard it here first!ĭidn't your mother ever teach you to chew with your mouth closed!? All media was generously donated by Jos Bakker and his travel companions.
Always remember, if a terrible B-movieĪppears on the SyFy channel in a couple of years from now titled something like Hyena in totality and given a kill of this magnitude it will not need to eatĪnother fascinating struggle for life and death in the Mara. Swallowed the hyena, it will likely lie motionless in a warm, safe place nearbyįor a couple of months.
Now that the rock python has successfully One false strike and that hyena could haveĮasily turned around and crushed the python’s skull. Successfully bite, strangle cut off circulation, and come out of the fight unscathed. This snake obviously knew what it was doingĪs it is one thing to successfully bite an adult hyena, and another to Nevertheless, it is an incredibly impressive kill for this python. Hyena was not one of our own and was likely an immigrant male looking for a newĪmbushed and strangled to death as he or she wandered through the swampyĬulvert or neighboring drainage pipes looking for a cool place to sack out for Several nerve-racking hours of feverishly searching the binders of our threeĬlans and recently missing hyenas, but we successfully established that this Snake – we concluded that this behemoth rock python did in fact kill and Through cross-references of the video footage above, theĭiscovery of a large rock python at the described location, and the condition of the Implies: a gigantic rock submerged in a swamp. Eventually, the rock python was located, resembling, as its namesake Very far, so we elected to delay our desperate foray until the morning to allow I reasoned that a snake with a 68kg hyena bolus in tow would not be making it Intel, it was too late to gallivant around the Mara which had received a true walloping Unfortunately, by the time we obtained this Higher probability that one of our beloved fisi had been dispatched. Hoping this hypothetical event would’ve taken place as now there was an even This predator cataclysm, we were directed to a bridge over a swampy culvert on theīorder of Happy Zebra and North territories – probably the last place we were When anxiously questioned for the location of Scientist is skepticism, but thorough investigation is also a powerful ally. Were originally very skeptical that snake of any magnitude would target largeĬarnivores capable of retaliating and causing significant bodily harm to said snake, like a spotted Their driver, we were informed that a massive 4m rock python had dispatched a After a tip-off from a benevolent group of tourists and