"Third, there is no lie in noting that pythons have been found with rats in their stomachs. The pythons certainly did cause the demise of the rats they ate."

Not necessarily. It is my understanding Boids are opportunistic feeders and do occasionally feed on carrion. If this is true, then it would be possible for the rat in the Python's stomach to have been killed otherwise, say road kill, for instance. If the python fed on a freshly road killed rat, then the python would not have been responsible for the demise of the rat in it's stomach.
In that case your statement quoted above would be an assumption on your part, a conclusion not supported by facts. That is, unless you saw the python kill the rat in question.

jsc
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