OK, first off this isn't a joke, but I know some of you like to de-bunk "urban legends." I don't know if this is true or even possible, but I got this email and thought I'd pass it along.

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Email title:
Don't sleep on the job Bubba!

Snake... THIS IS FOR REAL!!

A CREW MEMBER ON A LAND OIL RIG IN THE AMAZONS WENT OUT AND TOOK A NAP. YES, A NAP. HE WAS MISSING, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY FOUND.








ANYONE WANT TO GO TO THE AMAZON????
or the moral to the story

Don't sleep on the job

[QUOTE]Originally posted by TC1:
OK, first off this isn't a joke, but I know some of you like to de-bunk "urban legends." I don't know if this is true
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/animals/anaconda.htm

Not true

Ok, that one was an urban legend - this one is not! And have a look at the teeth on this thing! Nightmare city, eh?

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.

And finally, just the head of a live python:


I'd rate these beggars right up there with the HUGE cobras from SE Asia on prompt installation of 'pucker factor' - I don't want to meet up with them!