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You might think that human eating patterns have little in common with giant snakes that kill their prey by slowly suffocating it, swallowing it whole and then not eating again for another three weeks ...

Hungry snake caught swallowing another, even bigger snake headfirst. Many species of snakes are capable of swallowing prey much larger than themselves, such as deer, cows and even humans. However, ...