Assertion: python | /r/CapableOf | swallow prey
Facets:
value: bigger than its diameter
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: When swallowing prey, pythons secrete a mucus that contains harmless trace amounts of venom proteins.
text: This allows the a python to digest prey that is much larger than the snake is, according to a study published in 2013 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
text: Pythons can consume prey that is 75-100% of their own body size.
text: After that, the python unfolds its flexible jaw, opens wide, and swallows its prey whole—usually head first—flexing and contracting its muscles to move the meal down its throat and into its stomach.
text: When the prey is dead, pythons slowly open their jaws and swallow the prey whole, head first.
text: The python can swallow prey bigger than its diameter because the jaw bones are not connected.