A duck a day keeps the doctor away - but not the snake catchers!

[webfact]

Naew Na Thai Caption: Cunning python! It hid by a duck coop swallowing one a day

 

Naew Na reported on what they called was a cunning python who took up residence hiding next to a duck coop helping itself to one feathered friend a day.

 

But while that may have kept the doctor away, the snake catchers were soon on its case. 

 

Yesterday afternoon guys from Tai Teck Tung in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, southern Thailand were called to Prik sub-district in Thung Yai.

 

There at a house Chaiyan Khongmai, 49, said that a large python had been slithering in from hollow soil by the coop.

 

After a bit of digging they found the miscreant coiled up and soon had the 4 meter long 25 kilogram snake in custody.

 

Chaiyan said that from 20 days ago his flock of ducks had reduced by one or two a day.

 

He thought a two legged thief was responsible at first until he caught the snake going back to its lair, red mouthed as it were. 

 

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[Tropicalevo]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Chaiyan said that from 20 days ago his flock of ducks had reduced by one or two a day.

I thought that pythons do not eat every day. It takes a few days for them to digest their prey.

[Cardano]

Me thinks some Thai story telling going on here, Pythons tend to eat once or twice per month. Not everyday or even twice a day as claimed here. Why do Thai media outlets not conduct due diligence to avoid printing misleading and factually incorrect substance.

[Liverpool Lou]

49 minutes ago, Cardano said:

Why do Thai media outlets not conduct due diligence to avoid printing misleading and factually incorrect substance.

Indeed, but at least they fit in well with the "misleading and factually incorrect" comments that appear here so frequently!

[Liverpool Lou]

55 minutes ago, Cardano said:

Me thinks some Thai story telling going on here, Pythons tend to eat once or twice per month. Not everyday or even twice a day as claimed here. 

Perhaps it depends on the size of the python and the size of the ducks?  Perhaps the other pythons in the area were using the same buffet?

 

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[peterfranks]

17 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

they fit in well with the "misleading and factually incorrect" comments that appear here so frequently!

Yup, and below is such an example

 

12 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Perhaps the other pythons in the area were using the same buffet?

 

[Liverpool Lou]

5 minutes ago, peterfranks said:

23 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

they fit in well with the "misleading and factually incorrect" comments that appear here so frequently!

Yup, and below is such an example

 

18 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Perhaps the other pythons in the area were using the same buffet?

 

What, specifically, was misleading and factually incorrect about that question?  How can a question be misleading and factually incorrect, anyway?

 

"Yup, and below is such an example"

In actual fact, your comment was the one that was factually incorrect!

Edited September 2, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[Eaglekott]

I guess his ducks must be very small if he lost a few each day.  Pythons eat when they get hungry. Depending on what they eat they might eat only a few times a year if they eat a big animal like an antelope. But when eat smaller preys like rats or Rabbits they eat about every 7-10 days, Young smaller Pythons eat more often than big grown up once.

[portlandtree]

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

I thought that pythons do not eat every day. It takes a few days for them to digest their prey.

Maybe it was 7 headed serpent

 

[loong]

Obviously, whoever writes these headlines is trying to be clever but I just don't get it!

I know of "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", but a duck?????

What is that about?

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

I thought that pythons do not eat every day. It takes a few days for them to digest their prey.

I was thinking along the same lines... not eating a duck every day?

[sammieuk1]

One playboy was also captured and all the ducks look less nervous ???? 

[Grumpy one]

14 hours ago, loong said:

Obviously, whoever writes these headlines is trying to be clever but I just don't get it!

I know of "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", but a duck?????

What is that about?

Old Chinese proverb

Better to eat a duck a day then phluck it  

[Photoguy21]

I would doubt if a snake the size shown in the photo would only eat one duck a day. It isnt how they normally feed.

[Lemsta69]

whoever wrote that headline is a wee bit doolally ????