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I was wondering if there is any animal that has been known to kill 20 foot plus snakes? If so what animals? Also do you know where i can get information or perhaps pictures of this?

A 20ft Retic or Burm is ON TOP of the food chain 98% of the time.. Maybe the only thing that would give a large 20ft python a run for its money is maybe a GIANT ALLIGATOR, CROCODILE,ADULT MALE LION, ANOTHER VENOMOUS SPECIES OF SNAKE??? There is pics of such confrentations on the internet just have to look for them...

If you look around plenty of pics from the everglades with 16ft plus alligators dragging 16ft plus burms that tried to eat them. The burms well now their the one that's going to be eatten. If they can take a 16ft plus burm I don't see why they couldn't take a 20ft retic or more.

John
P.S. I live in Florida and still looking for wild retics and burms hehe

I forget where I read this artical but it was an account of a guy who went on safari in africa and came across a rare sight. He first saw a lone hiena (sp) feasting on what seemed to be a slightly decomposed body of a thomson's gazel. A small distance away was the roch python that regurgitated the gazel to escape the hiena to no avail. It had its head badly chewed up and appently died from those wounds.
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Well,in the world record African Rock Python-about 31-32' they found a 13 foot croc in his belly...now that is impressive

I don't think there has ever been an African rock python to reach anywhere near 30ft, and I've never heard of a 13ft croc being found inside one. I do know, however, that a big retic, or burm that is over 20ft is not going to be looked at as food by any other animal with intelligence. To witness the size of a snake like this first hand is all it takes to realize that. Plus, a healthy snake of that size would be herculean in strength, and most animals wouldn't risk trying to overpower it.
Just my opinion.

MrClean

What about the human animal? I would be willing to bet that the most successful predator against a 20 snake woud be humans, if they actualy hunt for giants for food is another question entirly but I have heard that they taste like chicken. .

Also there has been storys of some truly humoungous african pythons, infact there is a old B/W arieal photo of an african out there. The animal was reported ~40', over estimation prehapse? The photo is still impressive with the snake being in a group of trees that are dwarfed by its size... Hoax??? What about the Giant Anacondas of legend? I could imagine animals like that existing sure. At the turn of the century when humans were pushing deep into the unforgiving areas of the earth the animals they found were much larger. Either there rulers were broken or the animals just are not growing as large? Maybe it is the human eliment that caused them to shrink?

Some food for thought though...Giants realy do exist its a scientific fact....
Prehapse some animals just have petubitary disorders, after all there are giant people out there... :-P

Ya i wouldnt think so, but i heard from a guy that the world record Rock was 31' 11" , i know this guy wouldnt lie, and knows his stuff, but ill try and get some sources on that tomorrow

Here this says 32' 2" and the Retic has it beaten by 7 inches at 32' 9"

Man, out of fear, or for skin and meat.
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To me it boils down to which animal is in predator mode at the moment. As crazy as it sounds a grown rat can kill a big burm or retic under the right situations...this is one of the reasons why we are encouraged to feed them prekilled or frozen thawed. A 10ft alligator can kill and mostly eat a 20ft burm...and the burm can kill the alligator. Don't know if the burm could eat it though...a 10ft alligator would be hitting the 400lb mark, maybe more? I know Gomek (sp?) was a salty and was 18ft plus and over 1800 lbs.

I don't see mammals attacking the really big snakes very often. We tend to know we are outmatched.
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