Giant snake eats itself to death

The bloated 13ft African rock python was found dead with dozens of quills from the spiky 2st porcupine piercing its belly.

At the point when this snake chose a stout porcupine would make a decent dinner, it plainly did not foresee his sustenance would be having its vengeance.

This bloated 13ft African rock python ate itself to death after its innards were punctured with many plumes from the spiky 2st rat.

It was found by a mountain biker, lying beside a cycle track at Lake Eland Game Reserve, close Port Shepstone, South Africa.

The snake is envisioned with the porcupine in his stomachDeath by nourishment: The snake is imagined with the porcupine in his stomach
Save directors discovered it python dead underneath a rough edge, where it had been attempting to process its last dinner.

Store general director Jennifer Fuller said: "The precise explanations behind the snake's passing are not clear.

"It is evident that few porcupine plumes were stopped inside the digestive tract. "It had tumbled off the rough edge.

The full porcupine out of the snake stomach - the snake is seen to one side of the Eating to death: The porcupine was taken from the snake's tummy which had been pricked by spikes

"We don't know whether it passed on previously, or whether the fall drove a portion of the plumes into its digestive tract."

Though a few predators will be cautioned off by the visual danger presentations of a porcupine, numerous snake animal groups depend on warm or concoction tangible systems to snare prey around evening time.

This implies they frequently don't see the spikes until it is past the point of no return.