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What's Happening to the Snakes?
The snake had eaten the chicken and it's there and it's, you know, bulbous in the snake. And then by the time the snake catcher got there, it had completely flattened out. Now when a snake, especially a python, is digesting, it is working at a metabolic rate about five times harder than a horse. They are going through and what they're doing is relying on the fact that when you're a reptile, you don't need a lot of food. You just let your stomach atrophy. So firstly, the snake digesting the chicken is working really hard. And actually moving his body is minor compared to the massive internal metabolic load that it's
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