Pythons are large animals, can be from 6 to 10 meters long, and weigh up to 100kg. Pythons can swallow large prey such as deer and crocodiles.
This is possible because their mouths have super stretchy skin and mobile jaws, only loosely connected to a ligament that allows them to open their mouths many times wider to swallow their prey whole.
The fierce battle of a python and a crocodile swamp killer was recorded at Lake Moondarra, near the city of Mount Isa, northwest Queensland, Australia.
Before being swallowed, the crocodile had a fierce fight in the water with the enemy. Using the familiar attack method of curling its body around its prey and squeezing, the python gained the upper hand and pinned it down so that the crocodile could not move.
In the first minutes of this fierce battle, the crocodile tried to keep the head above the water to find a way to escape but to no avail.
After nearly 5 hours of struggling from the water to the edge of the lake, the battle ended when the python grabbed the crocodile’s head and pulled it ashore.
The entire body part about one meter long of the crocodile was controlled and became the prey of the large python. The body of a 3m long python swells up after swallowing its prey.