Constrictors show how incredibly strong they are with their ability to kill animals so much larger than they. This last image shows a python that had previously eaten the head of its victim and was now up to the impala's shoulders. "By the next morning," says photographer Tina Owens, "it was gone."
As all these images show, nature can be cruel yet at the same time amazing. It is one thing for a frog to swallow a fly whole, but for these snakes to take larger mammals is one majorly big mouthful.
Python pulling itself over most of an impala's head, the victim's ears still exposed.
Death comes in many forms, but one of the most dramatic and disturbing is the way some snakes constrict their prey. Seeing a hapless impala or goat wrapped in the coils of a beady-eyed reptile, the life draining out of them, seems a terrible way for the animal to die, but new information suggests such a death may actually be quicker than once was thought.
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