In the Selous game reserve in South Africa, a tragic scene occurs: an African rock python devours a porcupine and dies. So, does the African rock python have the ability to swallow porcupines? What are the natural enemies of porcupines?
The African rock python, of course, is the snake carrying handle of the African world, the adult python body length of more than 6 meters, the African rock python discovered in 1932 is 9.72 meters long. They live mainly in the steppe regions of Africa, where they prey on large animals such as jackals, antelopes, honey badgers, hyenas, and more.
Porcupine, body length 60-80 cm, weight of about 20 pounds. They are obese, with sharp teeth and a rat-like face; The body is covered with spikes and is up to 30 cm long. When attacked, the porcupine will rub the thorns on its body to scare the opponent away, and if necessary, shoot out spikes on the body.
In contrast, the only obstacle for the African rock python to eat a porcupine is the thorns on its body. African rock pythons are opportunists, they will eat whatever they encounter, they can even eat prey of the same size, so it is normal for African rock pythons to swallow porcupines.
After the African rock python encounters the porcupine, it will continue to pretend to attack, and the porcupine will be more arrogant at first, and will continue to shoot stingers. However, with the passage of time, the porcupine's strength is exhausted, and the rock python will take advantage of its lack of preparation and bite the porcupine's head, because the front half of the porcupine has no thorns, so the rock python can strangle the porcupine and swallow it slowly.
So why is there a scene where the African rock python swallows the porcupine and dies together? This is because after the rock python has swallowed its prey, it generally remains motionless until it has digested the prey. But this time, it is possible that the rock python encountered other predators and was frightened, so the rock python tried to escape or spit out the porcupine, which eventually led to tragedy.
Therefore, the African rock python has the ability to swallow and digest porcupines, but there are also many cases where pythons are full of thorns in the process of preying on porcupines, and finally fail to hunt.
Although porcupines have a proud stinger, in nature, they still have many natural predators, such as fishing mink, they are the main natural enemies of porcupine, they will burrow under the porcupine and cut open the porcupine's abdomen.
In addition, lions, jaguars, hyenas and other large predators will try to prey on porcupines, although they will be purcupine punctures, but they are always happy.
Of course, the small master of hunting porcupines is naturally still human, because in the past, porcupines were regarded as pests, and the meat production rate was 100%, which also had a great tonic effect, and was once massacred by humans. However, since the establishment of protected areas and the artificial raising of porcupines, porcupines in the wild have been able to survive. #头条创作挑战赛 #
