NAPLES, Fla. — Researchers studying invasive Burmese pythons in Florida came upon something they’d never seen before: an 11-foot-long python had consumed an entire deer that weighed more than the snake itself. Biologist Ian Bartoszek told the Naples Daily News that the fawn weighed 35 pounds; the snake 31.5. “We were sitting there just trying to process that an animal this size could get its head around what turned out to be a deer,” Bartoszek said. Burmese pythons, which can grow nearly 20-feet long, were brought to South Florida as pets in the late 1970s. If the snake had been left in the wild, it would have digested the entire deer, Bartoszek said.

Source: National Post March 03, 2018 18:05 UTC