It’s probably not the best idea to swallow a porcupine in most cases.
A giant python had to experience this firsthand.
A cyclist , who was on the road in a nature reserve in South Africa, discovered this strange snake.
He told the rangers. No one could imagine what the snake might have eaten.
But it really looked like a big prey. One guessed a small warthog or something similar.
Less than a week later, this giant snake died.
It was opened and found that it had swallowed a 15 kilo porcupine.
The snake itself was barely 4 meters long.
Her intestines had been literally shredded by the spikes. The body had tried to digest the spines, but it was futile.
A published study from 2003 shows that the spines of such an animal can pierce any part of a snake’s body.
However, one is not quite sure what exactly caused the death of the snake.
After all, it seems to have fallen off a ledge. No wonder, being so full of food.
And then the spikes in its belly could have bored into its guts from the impact.
And why would a snake be dumb enough to eat a porcupine? I suppose it’s like us sometimes: hunger drives it in.