Big but Not Necessarily Smart...
Aug. 6th, 2004 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helen99Netscape.com has now become a yahoo-like entity where they have newsfeeds and such. On their list of headlines, I spied the following headline:
Rocker's Snake Eats the Wrong Thing
(Dead link removed)
Sadly, the story does not surprise me. I'm assuming by the size that it's a redtail boa. These are not the sharpest pencils in the pack. I've had Wednesday totally miss the prey and attempt to eat her rug. But it never occurred to me that eventually she could succeed. My goodness.
Edit - wellp I read the story more carefully - they're saying the snake was an albino python, and not a redtail. But it's too big to be a ball python, who usually never get over 5 feet. The most common albino pythons I've seen (who are dumb enough to eat a heating pad) are Burmese. But 8 feet is way too small for a Burmese -those can get about 25-30 feet long. Unless, of course, it's a baby. In which case, if it's already devouring "The Wrong Thing", then I shudder to think what it will be eating when it grows to full size.
Rocker's Snake Eats the Wrong Thing
(Dead link removed)
Sadly, the story does not surprise me. I'm assuming by the size that it's a redtail boa. These are not the sharpest pencils in the pack. I've had Wednesday totally miss the prey and attempt to eat her rug. But it never occurred to me that eventually she could succeed. My goodness.
Edit - wellp I read the story more carefully - they're saying the snake was an albino python, and not a redtail. But it's too big to be a ball python, who usually never get over 5 feet. The most common albino pythons I've seen (who are dumb enough to eat a heating pad) are Burmese. But 8 feet is way too small for a Burmese -those can get about 25-30 feet long. Unless, of course, it's a baby. In which case, if it's already devouring "The Wrong Thing", then I shudder to think what it will be eating when it grows to full size.