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Pythons eat up to a quarter of their body weight at one meal.  Most eat small prey like rats but some eat larger like the African Rock Python that has been observed eating an antelope.  The python ambushes it's prey and then constricts until the prey asphyxiates. The Reticulated Python is one of the largest types with the largest recorded length of 33 feet.  That's a snake I sure would NOT want to meet in the dark.

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