In an image that ’s certain to give you indigestion , a new paper has report a humanity - first depredation event as a Burmesepythonwas spotted chowing down on a reticulated python . The Burmese was over 3 meters ( 10 feet ) long with the tail - end of a reticulated in its back talk , in a rare repast that took about two hours to land up .

The Burmese python ( Python bivittatus ) and reticulated python ( Malayopython reticulatus ) both call Bangladesh domicile , but while the Burmese is far-flung , reticulated pythons have only been recorded in Sylhet and Chittagong Divisions . Both metal money can be found in Bandarban District , which is in the Chittagong Hill Tracts , either out in woods or in garden and farm .

Where their ranges cross over , these snakes may compete for resource as they ’re both fond to lounge lizard , birds , and mammals for dinner , admit monkeys , cervid , and even crazy boar . They are extremely skilled predator , which mean when a python crosses another python , the results can be annihilating .

Such a scene was discover in Bandarban District back in October 2020 at Akiz Wildlife Farm . Here , the authors of a raw paper bump a Burmese python with quite the mouthful : the tail - end of a reticulated python . We have a go at it the Burmese was around 3.04 meters ( 9.97 feet ) in length , but what with the reticulated already being on its way to its digestive pathway , that exact duration was harder to identify .

According to the authors , “ [ the Burmese python ] had capture a Reticulated Python by the tail and coiled tightly around its prey before swallowing it tailfirst . The Reticulated Python seek to defend itself by contract the Burmese Python but loosened its travelling bag after being subjugate . From the initial bang to discharge ingestion shoot about two 60 minutes . ”

“ To the best of our knowledge , this observance represents the first documented depredation ofM. reticulatusbyP. bivittatus . ”

While the 3 - meter Burmese python in this tale might vocalize like a heavyweight , the reticulated python is the long snake in the globe . subject of reach the equivalent distance of16 corgis , they typically stretch to length pass 6 meter ( 12 feet ) , but the longest ever recorded was a humongous 9.75 - metre ( 32 - animal foot ) , find on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 1912 .

The long - ever Burmese python was becharm in Florida back in2023 . The gigantic 5.79 - meter ( 19.3 - foot ) Hydra sssswiped the record from a snakecaught in 2020 , which was 5.7 metre ( 18.75 feet ) .

Though the friction of titan in Bangladesh ended poorly , relations between Burmese and other python specie are n’t always so frosty . In South Florida , a hybrid between them and the Indian python ( Python molorus ) seems to be well adapted to the Everglades environment than their parent . A feat for serpent kind , but a atrocious bump in theinvasive snake war .

The newspaper publisher is published inReptiles & Amphibians .