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African Rock Python (Python sebae)
The Rock python is Africa's largest snake. The rock python eats mammals and
birds.
Lays up to 100 eggs about the size of a tennis ball in antbear (Aardvark)
holes, hollow tree or similar suitable place. The female coils herself around
the eggs to protect them.
The snake in this picture had eaten a full grown Impala ewe and, sadly, caught itself in an electric fence.
Over four metres in length, this was a large specimen.
When the python was skinned we found a full grown Impala ewe had just been
swallowed.
The python kills its prey by coiling itself around the animal and constricting
it. When the animal is dead the python swallows it normally head first. Having
swallowed its prey, the snake will find an abandoned burrow or hollow tree
in which to hide and digest it's meal.
A view of the python's mouth. A python's bite is not venomous but would be
very painful. 
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