Python Swallows Barbecue Tongs [PHOTOS]

By: Evan Jankens
@kingofthekc

You might call it sick or gross but I have always enjoyed watching a snake eat.

Something about the way they just swallow their prey whole.

A python in Adelaide, Australia was rushed to the animal hospital when it ate the barbecue tongs that were used to feed the snake a rat according to CNN.com.

"There was a chance (he could have regurgitated the tongs) but they were too far in," Funnell said. "Even dragging them out could have been fatal."

The 25-minute surgery saw Funnell, aided by student veterinarians, remove the tongs from an incision near their widest part.

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