An anaconda snake died while trying to eat a puppy in rural Dueré, in southern Tocantins. According to the animal's owner, Beto Gonçalves, 75, it was his other dogs that 'snitched' the snake.
As told to G1 of Tocantins, the dog was an American puppy. The animal disappeared a week earlier and he spent days looking for the little companion, until, over the barking of the other animals, he found the scene.
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“I've lived all my life in the countryside, I've seen an anaconda catch a lot of animals, but I've never seen it choke to death,” he told the news site.
When he found prey and predator, Beto believed that the snake she was still alive. “I ran and said: ‘Woman, the anaconda is over there with the dog in its mouth,'” she recalled.
However, when she got closer, she saw that the two animals were already dead. "I called my children to take the photo to tell someone, because if I tell the story ' with a clean face ', they will look and laugh, saying I was lying", she justified.
And, finally, she still sent a message to the snake: “died of sassy”.
To G1, biologist Raiany Cruz, an expert on snakes, said that the situation caught by Beto is not as unusual as one might think. But the explanation not what he believes.
What happens is that the entire attack of the anaconda – which involves immobilizing and squeezing the prey in a kind of “embrace” – generates a lot of energy expenditure. Not to mention digestion itself. All this can lead to the death of the snake.
So, what probably happened is that the anaconda “died of tiredness”.
“Depending on the size of the prey, the snake will have too much energy to digest and depending on the stress that was placed to carry out this action, it can die due to this energy expenditure and stress”, he explained Rayany.
There is yet another possibility: the dog's nails may have pierced the anaconda's viscera. “There have already been cases of feeding a porcupine and the thorns piercing”, he explained. “Horns, horns, hooves… These structures that the animal cannot digest, with the potential for perforation, can cause death”.
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