...to answer the first part, yeah, on average, they're all the same pressure...50 psi..50pounds of force exerted per square inch of area.


The anaconda's total force exerted is 9000lbs...thats not the pressure. Keep in mind, the force exerted is never uniform, and it results in differential pressures being exerted all over different points on the duck. Basically, the internal forces pressing outward on the duck will balance the pressure exerted by the snake.

90 psi seems reasonable, if you think of being squeezed by a python or boa wrapped on your arm---I've had one close call with a burmese during a feeding mishap--it really squeezed my arm and caused blood to squirt out through the teeth punctures--so they do squeeze pretty tight!

Anyone who has been SCUBA diving and experienced a mask squueze at deep depths, knows what that feels like--similar to a snake squeezing. I had a mask squeeze at 120ft once, which ruptured vessels in my eyes...it was somewhat painful, but since water pressure doubles every 33ft...at ~120 you are at 4.5x atmospheric( 120/33= 3.6 1 for the air pressure at sea level), so 4.5 x 14.7psi = 66psi....so I would say, YES, that 90 psi of pressure is in the ball park. Again, pressure isn't exerted...its the result of a FORCE being exerted.

LOL, I was going to suggest on the thread below, that perhaps our next topic for dicussion be "DENSITY".

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• PSI question... - eunectes4, Thu Mar 16 07:25:43 2006
• Nah, that seems about right. - Matt Harris, Thu Mar 16 09:29:12 2006
• RE: PSI question... - LarryF, Thu Mar 16 15:08:55 2006
• RE: Oops.. - LarryF, Thu Mar 16 15:10:34 2006
• Thank you - eunectes4, Thu Mar 16 17:59:04 2006
• RE: Thank you - LarryF, Thu Mar 16 18:39:22 2006
• RE: Thank you - yoyoing, Thu Mar 16 21:43:40 2006
• RE: Thank you - LarryF, Fri Mar 17 00:25:41 2006
• RE: Thank you - yoyoing, Fri Mar 17 02:46:14 2006
• RE: PSI question... - Shane_OK, Fri Mar 17 00:21:43 2006