This is where fighting gets you.
Amazing find!! This was shared today on one of the snake pages, nothing about the location but it would’ve been in south east Asia somewhere.
A King Cobra (the worlds longest venomous snake) has attempted to catch, kill and eat this Reticulated Python (grows to be the longest snake in the world) and has been coiled and strangled by the python and died in the process. Both were dead when found.
The King has met its match…
This reminds me of the infamous python-vs-alligator picture from the Everglades:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1006_051006_pythoneatsgator.html
It’s the snake version of the end of Reservoir Dogs.
Kind of a two-snake Ourobouros.
I love the way the the trash scattered about further emphasises the glory of the god’s grand plan.
“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who’s ahead, who’s stronger.” — Carl Sagan
That’s a couple sets of nice boots!
They would make a nice meal for some critter /bird .
I’d call that a draw. Or, even better, a tie.
Never mind the King, the Red Queen might be having the odd jitter or two, too.
Wow. I’m no herpetologist, but I can imagine the cobra might have died anyway had it tried to it the python? I mean… the cobra’s body is not visible so I can’t tell its size, but the python must be way bigger. Ingestion and digestion should have been problematic, no?
*it the python = eat the python… gah.
It is possible to win a nuclear war. But it really sucks.
America? Atheist community?
Two predators doing their thing…
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It appears to be a dry stream bed, full of garbage that was brought by the water.
Kevin Anthoney, #8
I think knot.
Danny Husar, #13
Poor you. Meanie atheists valuing the lives and well-being of marginalized people over the absence of belief in deities.
Naw.
It is the Republican party and Trump against the current FBI.
Or maybe Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland not too long ago.
Gorogh, Lounging Peacromancer, #10
The cobra is pretty big. It appears as if the cobra is the body that extends straight back in the picture, and the Python is wrapped up in a tight ball around the front of the cobra based on its markings. I wouldn’t want to run into either of those, they are pretty amazing.
flybywire @18, you’re right, I overlooked the fact that it’s obviously not reticulated back there. I really should think longer before posting stuff. And yeah those are some humongous snakes! Scary and cool.
“We are winning the War Against Pythons” says Government Anti-Python Tsar.