Wild Inside: The Burmese Python

Discovery

BBC

Science

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ben Garrod and Jess French delve deep inside the predatory Burmese Python to examine its extraordinary body plan that enables it to catch, constrict and consume huge prey whole.

Producer Adrian Washbourne

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0:00.0	Hey, let me ask you, son.
0:03.7	Have you heard George's podcast?
0:06.1	Me and Ben Brick are back with a blast.
0:08.1	This time with stories from Africa's past, not too distant, unsolved mysteries, unsung
0:13.7	heroes from untold histories, I'm trying to make sense of the present day.
0:19.5	Join me on this journey, by pressing play.
0:23.8	Have you heard George's podcast, Chapter 4?
0:27.2	Listen on BBC Sound.
0:30.4	This is Discovery on the BBC World Service.
0:33.6	I'm really looking forward to this one.
0:35.1	This is something that we all know and we grow up seeing these.
0:38.7	These are the things of horror films and nightmares and things your mum and dad tell you never
0:42.9	to go near.
0:43.9	It's a big snake.
0:44.9	A very big snake.
0:46.9	It's in fact one of the largest snakes on earth, capable of reaching up to seven meters
0:51.9	in length and weighing up to a massive 180kg with a girth thicker than my thigh.
0:58.7	It's a Burmese python.
1:00.0	Everyone thinks that they're wet, don't they?
1:01.6	Yeah, I remember the first time I ever held a snake.
1:03.4	I was dreading.
1:04.4	I thought we let some eel.
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