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Hello. A python arrives on a farm, and swallows a little girl. What happens then? Can the python move, or it is staying put until it digests the girl? Another thing, when he leaves this farm, can he return to the farm, and regurgitate clothes and bones there? How many times will it regurgitate, once or more? And approximately how many days he needs before regurgitation, slowly digesting the girl? I need info about plausibility of these specifics, regarding eating habits of python, for a little story, which involves a tragedy and detective investigation.

little girls are generally not on a python's dinner menu. perhaps a shark story would be better? a shark goes to a farm and eats a girl..... I like it! lol

>>little girls are generally not on a python's dinner menu. perhaps a shark story would be better? a shark goes to a farm and eats a girl..... I like it! lol

Pythons digest bones. And assuming the clothing were somehow indigestable, it would be defecated, not regurgitated.

Well then, is there a snake out there, which eats the girl and then returns to the farm after certain amount of days, to regurgitate what once was this girl? So criminal investigators know by examining these remains, this phantom snake ate the girl, no doubt about it.. But what other snakes arte out there that could do this, anaconda? Do not know much about snakes, obviously, but, heh, I am poking my nose in the above theme, because of a little story I want to write down..

NO regurgitation. All digested except clothes. Would have to be very large python, very small girl. People do not smell like food to snakes, and are hard to swallow.
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>>Hello. A python arrives on a farm, and swallows a little girl. What happens then? Can the python move, or it is staying put until it digests the girl? Another thing, when he leaves this farm, can he return to the farm, and regurgitate clothes and bones there? How many times will it regurgitate, once or more? And approximately how many days he needs before regurgitation, slowly digesting the girl? I need info about plausibility of these specifics, regarding eating habits of python, for a little story, which involves a tragedy and detective investigation.

I think you should get the impression that the plausibility of your story is slim and none. Unless maybe you are writing some 'horror' like 'Anaconda' or "Python" about some surreal 80ft beast. Otherwise...what kind of python
and how big?(part of the world is this thing or is it some escaped pet in need of a PR agent?)
One big enough to eat an infant? Maybe. While there may be some out there big enough to kill a person they are not gonna get past the shoulders as far as actual ingestion.
So, if by some trick of reality the snake finds some petite child to eat it would likely then slither off to some quiet spot to digest. Bones get digested,(prime calcium source) and clothes get pooped out....depending on the weather(heat and humidity), size of the beastie, size of the girl it could take days to weeks before digestion is complete and the pooped out clothes are left randomly somewhere else.
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Just for the sake of your story concept:

A large python could most definitely consume a small child. It would be more plausible for your story if somehow, let's say, that python was raiding a chicken coop or rabbit hutch on the farm for food. One day it came across the little girl tending her bunnies or gathering eggs. Maybe the little girl tried to defend her "pets" or maybe she just had the smell of these prey items heavily on her body, and the snake then killed and swallowed her. It would take a long time, surely more than an hour, for the python to engulf her.

Now. The python should have a place to hide in the immediate vicinity, because once it settled in to digest this large meal it would not be apt to move, or return to the farm as you put it. The hiding place needn't be very large - a meter square would be more than ample.

There would be two plausible reasons for this snake to regurgitate the child. One - the human was simply too large and as it began to be digested by gasses, the snake's body would become even more distended and it would then regurgitate it.

Another reason (and perhaps more suited to your story) would be for humans looking for the child to discover the large snake with the large lump. They began to beat the hapless serpent with tools, or throw rocks at it, causing it to regurgitate the meal. This is a common way for snakes, and some other animals who swallow large meals, to act when confronted with a threat when they are incapacitated by a gut full of food.

The condition of the body would depend on the time spent being digested as well as the ambient temperatures. The snake would be unlikely to regurgitate the prey item after more than a few days, I would think. The clothing should be relatively unaffected regardless of which end of the python it exits. And, of course, even if you allow the child to be digested in your story, that special ring or necklace she was given by her favorite aunt would be deposited in the, um, droppings, and found by your sleuth.

Hope that helps.

-Joan

p.s., Of course, in any of the scenarios above, the sadder but wiser (and still hungry) serpent lives to slip off unnoticed into the bush, never to prey on humans again.

>>The human was simply too large and as it began to be digested by gasses, the snake's body would become even more distended and it would then regurgitate it.

Should read:

The human was simply too large and as it began to be digested, the snake's body would become even more distended by gasses and the snake would then regurgitate it.

...........I have the necessary info now. Appreciate it.