Three Deer Found In A Burmese Python's Belly

Before wildlife officials obtain it, a new study was done. The python was said to have presumably attacked and eaten three deer over a 90-day period in different times.

According to Fox News, the time span may seem heavy and long, yet it is actually quite amazing that a certain snake or python would eat three large meals for a short period of time. As Scott Boback stated "If a python is capable of eating three deer in three months, what else are they eating that we don't know about. We don't even know how many of them are out there."

Historically, Burmese pythons are native in the Southeast Asia. Surprisingly, they were also found in the Everglades during the 1990s.

These snakes are said to grow up to 18 feet long. Using their strong muscles, they capture their prey until its circulation stops. Some researchers have said that the snakes may hide in the water waiting for the deer to stop to drink water.

An animal autopsy said that it has an empty stomach, but the intestines were filled with poop. Researchers Teresa Hsu and Suzanne Penrach, scientists from the Smithsonian Institution, saw through the excrement and saw fur and some undigested hooves, bones and teeth showing that the python ate a white-tailed deer.

It is not surprising that those fur, hooves and teeth were not digested, because snakes' internal organs cannot break keratin or enamel. Yet they can break down bone.

Pythons are pig-like eaters and have been eating havoc for a long time. These snakes captured native animals as birds, mammals or an American alligator, the researchers said.

The newest report exposes evidence that pythons eat more than one deer per period at a time. "How often are they eating these things?" Boback said.