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Has anyone seen the picture, making the e-mail circuit, of the australian python supposedly eating a cow? It looks like a wallaby to me, which is considerably smaller but not as sensational. Buddy.

Even the largest species of Australian Python, the Scrub Python(Liasis amethystinus) could never begin to swallow a full grown cow!. They are very thin-built,...and an extremely large specimen would be lucky to manage a newborn calf.

You can bet it's a big bunch of BS as it always is in the media when it comes to snakes.

However, I would like to see the pic you're talking about just for a good chuckle!

~Doug

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Haha, when I first red the title I interpreted it as a snake-eating cow. I recently read a bunch of journal articles about a possible new species of bovid in vietnam and cambodia with weird twisted horns and that eats snakes. Pseudonovibos spiralis. I don't buy it. The species may be valid but I somehow doubt it eats snakes. It's a huge debate though whether or not the species even exists...

>>Has anyone seen the picture, making the e-mail circuit, of the australian python supposedly eating a cow? It looks like a wallaby to me, which is considerably smaller but not as sensational. Buddy.

I believe it is a wallaby - its certainly not a cow.

Very large Afican Rocks have been known to eat calfs (calves?) - er, baby cows.

jpd
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its a scrub eating a wallaby
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