Pythons are number 5 on The Most Extreme Gluttons. They can easily swallow things larger than their heads. If you want to eat like a python, try tying your hands behind your back, and then swallow a whole watermelon without chewing. They have very flexible jaws. The two sides of their lower jaw kind of work independently of each other, helping to draw the animal into their mouth. In fact, the biggest snakes could even swallow us. Big pythons can eat antelopes that weigh as much as the average human adult. They have a really slow digestive system. One big meal can last for days, even months.
- If following the countdown for extreme Gluttons, here is a link to the next contender, which is a danger to itself, for it can literally eat itself to death.