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Sputnik
10-11-2009, 02:53 PM
Snake with foot found in China - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6187320/Snake-with-foot-found-in-China.html)

What a shame she killed it! Though I don't blame her- imagine waking up to a snake walking down your bedroom wall! :eek:

Don't you think it looks a little like a skink in the middle?
adamanteus
10-11-2009, 03:03 PM
It's swallowed a lizard, which has then forced it's foot through the side of the snake (hence the bulge in it's belly).
Stefan-A
10-11-2009, 03:04 PM
Nevermind. :D
drache
10-11-2009, 03:22 PM
that's creepy in an H.P.Lovecraft sort of way
Sputnik
10-11-2009, 03:23 PM
:) Makes sense of course.
GarterGeek
10-11-2009, 03:44 PM
It's swallowed a lizard, which has then forced it's foot through the side of the snake (hence the bulge in it's belly).

That makes sense, but wouldn't there be blood or exposed tissue of some sort?

Strange story...
adamanteus
10-11-2009, 03:49 PM
Not necessarily. There appears to be a ring of swollen tissue aroung the protuding limb, this could be infection.
I don't believe it's any form of atavism (ancestral 'throw-back' such as vestigial limbs in pythons or little tails on humans) as the limb is in the wrong place. Also the obvious meal in the snakes' belly seems a little coincidental.
adamanteus
10-11-2009, 03:58 PM
Somewhere I have a photo of an African Rock Python (Python sebae) with an antelopes' back leg sticking out of its' flank! Apparently this protuding limb was later pulled back inside the snake as the meal moved down the gut. I don't know how true that part of the story is.
Sputnik
10-11-2009, 04:08 PM
While trying to work out what type of snake it is, using google images (maybe an indo-chinese rat snake?), I came across this thread:

Snake with claw stuns scientists?, page 1 (http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread501822/pg1)

Most people seem to be of the same opinion as James. There's a picture near the bottom of the page where someone drew in a possibly swallowed lizard's body.
aSnakeLovinBabe
10-11-2009, 04:15 PM
LOL. People never cease to amaze me. Clearly, the snake has just eaten. Clearly, the snake overdid it. If a snake somehow DID miraculously spawn a lizard arm, I don't think it would be coming out of it's stomach, that's the wrong place for an arm anyways!
zooplan
10-11-2009, 10:47 PM
The snake was preserved in alkohol, prior to the photo so donīt look for blood. Thatīs part of a very special and expensive liquor now:D
The article seems to be published in a very serious journal, isnīt it?
Stefan-A
10-11-2009, 11:10 PM
LOL. People never cease to amaze me. Clearly, the snake has just eaten. Clearly, the snake overdid it. If a snake somehow DID miraculously spawn a lizard arm, I don't think it would be coming out of it's stomach, that's the wrong place for an arm anyways!
It's not really a miracle if a snake spawns a lizard arm (or rather, hind legs), it's just an atavism, but that doesn't seem to be a case here.
aSnakeLovinBabe
10-12-2009, 06:59 PM
It's not really a miracle if a snake spawns a lizard arm (or rather, hind legs), it's just an atavism, but that doesn't seem to be a case here.

I learned a new word today :)
ConcinusMan
10-13-2009, 12:45 AM
The leg is definitely coming out of the stomach. I'm just not so sure that the snake "just" ate. Most of the apparent injuries look old, as if they have healed somewhat.

You would think, given the age of the report, that they would know by now, that the leg doesn't belong to the snake. I mean, anyone who knows anything about snakes can see that the leg is in the wrong place to be a vestigial limb. Looks bizarre though!
Stefan-A
10-13-2009, 12:55 AM
I fell for it, myself. My mistake was to assume that whoever originally reported it, had made sure that it was a part of the snake.
ConcinusMan
10-13-2009, 12:59 AM
Hey that reminds me. I once fed one of my Ca kings, a live (and quite large) Southern Alligator lizard. I guess it was a bit too large or the king didn't do a good job of killing it first. It came back up about 18 hours later.

The shocking part is that the lizard was still alive and once he caught his breath, he scurried off. I was shocked. Oh, and relating to the report, I know of a two headed ca king the survived many years at the San Diego zoo. Matter of fact, my brother is the person who caught it and sold it to the zoo.
mustang
10-13-2009, 11:13 AM
HIT THE FAMILY WITH THE SHOE!!!!!!!!!! dont kill it if it aint venomous!
ConcinusMan
10-15-2009, 01:08 AM
I can understand the reaction though. The woman was shocked and terrified and just reacted, I'm sure. She did think enough after it was dead, to put it in alcohol to preserve it.
mustang
10-18-2009, 01:05 PM
hey if it was impaled by the lizard from inside how cand it volunatirly use the led to climb?...i want one with txo legs ...ill call it RAPTOR!!!