It doesn't kill its prey with its bite, but by suffocation, coiling around the victim and squeezing its muscles tightly to constrict blood flow before swallowing it.

It doesn’t kill its prey with its bite, but by suffocation, coiling around the victim and squeezing its muscles tightly to constrict blood flow before swallowing it.

Black-headed pythons, like other python species, are non-venomous, and kill their prey by coiling around it to suffocate it, and then swallowing it whole. Snake cannibalism is not unheard of.

Though the possum’s demise was grim — pythons coil around their prey, tightening the grip every time the animal exhales, eventually suffocating it — the death proved that wildlife officials ...

The snake grabs its prey with its teeth before coiling around it and squeezing until the prey can no longer breathe. The python then swallows its prey whole, usually head first.

Though the possum's demise was grim — pythons coil around their prey, tightening the grip every time the animal exhales, eventually suffocating it — the death proved that wildlife officials ...

Burmese python caught swallowing full-sized deer proves the invasive snakes are eating bigger native prey in Florida, study says.

A huge python dragged a 5-year-old boy into a swimming pool in Australia and coiled around him. Beau Blake had been walking near a pool at his home in Byron Bay, New South Wales, when the 9-foot ...

Burmese python caught swallowing full-sized deer proves the invasive snakes are eating bigger native prey in Florida, study says.