How does a python snake kill its prey?

Answer 1

well its pretty much common sense. constrictor. Hmmmm... well i wonder if it constricts its prey and then eats it The constrictor snakes like the Boas,Pythons,Anacondas,Eryxs..all these snakes are powerfully built,since their bodies are made up of single muscle fiber straight head to tail. A mouth capable of flexing more than 180 degrees,the independently movable two halves of the lower jaw,the inbent teeth to carry food inside only,the highly movable skull bones.maxilla and mandible from each other...All these adaptation make these snakes extremely suitable to swallow large prey even more than their body size.The prey items devoured thus are constricted unless the breathing stops.Death ensues due to asphyxia to be swallowed whole later on by these snakes.

altough to be exact they wrap their coils around the prey items and squeeze every time the prey trys to take a breath. eventually the heart stops from lack of oxygen in the system and the constrictor proceeds to swalaw its prey whole with 'jaw walking'.

Answer 2

The snake bites the prey and wraps around it. Contrary to what you may have heard, they don't crush bones, but rather seem to exert enough pressure to kill the prey by preventing it from breathing.

There is a new hypothesis that they generate enough pressure to stop the prey's heart, but while the evidence is suggestive, no definitive test has been made.

Answer 3

They use very strong muscles all along the thickest part of their bodies to squeeze very tightly on the chest of their prey.

Hope this helps! You can find a more detailed answer on Wikipedia.

Answer 4

Constrictors wrap themselves around their prey and squeeze. The resulting pressure will render the subject unable to breathe, thus suffocating them. It also serves as a means to crush the smaller bones which will ease in digestion, since the lifeless prey will be swallowed whole.

Answer 5

By constricting it. (Which means to strangle to death)

Answer 6

A python kills its prey by sqeezing it to death.

Answer 7

Boa constrictors usually eat their prey by choking them to death.

Answer 8

There is no such this as a python snake there is a family of snakes called pythonidae, which is actually a group in boidae. Pythons > Boas

Answer 9

the boa constrictor...etc.