This Instagram post of a Burmese python eating a 77-pound white-tailed deer is quite horrifying. It teaches us a lot about the power of these incredible but invasive reptiles. At the same time, it ...

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A reticulated python has already completed its hunt of this small deer and is in the process of constricting its prey.