A Burmese Python Consuming a Rodent Meal (IMAGE)

University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

A Burmese Python Consuming a Rodent Meal

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This is a Burmese python consuming a rodent meal. Within 48 hours of feeding, Burmese pythons can undergo up to a 44-fold increase in metabolic rate and the mass of their major organs can increase by 40 to 100 percent.

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Stephen Secor

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