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Most turtle species in Florida spend a large part of their lives in water, where also the invasive pythons prefer to hunt. With other apex predators constantly in search for food, the hunter often becomes the hunted itself.
Reticulated pythons are excellent swimmers and usually feed on land, unless its tries to avoid a confrontation with a near by predator, which could have been attracted by the smell of the dead goat. But even in the water, fish and turtles are the first to recognize an easy meal.
A curious little turtle begins carefully approaching the giant snake and soon it gains confidence. But instead of feeding on the carcass, the turtles decides to eat the python. Reticulated pythons are the world’s longest snakes. They are semi aquatic, which often ambush its prey in or near water, killing it through asphyxiation or even drowning, which ever occurs first.
Most animals avoid such dangerous company. Yet, the small turtle seems to take a keen interest in the large python itself. These unusual behavior seems to agitate the snake but it remains unclear why it doesn’t strike at the turtle to fend off the pestering intruder. Instead, the bold turtles can’t make up its mind which one to eat first, the dead goat or the huge python.
But as the saying goes, a turtle doesn’t feed alone and soon a companion joins in on this free meal. The hungry turtles circle the annoyed python a few times before settling and to my surprise they ignored the dead goat all together but decided feed on the python itself. When feeding on a carcass, turtles often start at the face, tearing of flesh around the mouth area but understandably the python won’t have non of it. The powerful constrictor finally decides it is time to move with its prey out of the water and to a saver location. Only a few scraps of goat skin remain for the turtles. A meager meal indeed. This stock footage was filmed by Heiko Kiera aka Ojatro in 2016.
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