They use their muscles to strangle meals, which normally comprise mammals—not other snakes. “If there was a predatory event here, it was king cobra to python,” Burbrink says.

An old video that is going viral on social media again shows a tiger coming across a huge python on a road in Karnataka.

Pythons have huge appetites, but which snake would win an eating contest? Surprisingly, it's a harmless little African snake that consumes eggs whole like an amuse-bouche.