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redhed
at Sun Apr 25 02:22:24 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by redhed ]
Yes, it's hard to constrict a turtle, even as an anaconda, so typically they hang on to them and drown them, as far as anyone can tell...which you can imagine takes a VERY long time. Once we had a large female that, despite her size, had "eyes bigger than her stomach", er, or her mouth, more acurrately. I'll see if I can find the photo - poor thing tore one side of her mouth horribly from trying to swallow a too-wide, rather sharp-shelled turtle (one of the larger species of side-necked turtles.) They can be pretty determined; twice I've seen a large female have to regurgitate a white-tailed deer after getting thw whole body in her mouth, because once she got to the antlers there was just now way it was going to fit.
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