Experts Weigh In on the Encounter
The event of the workers fascinated the wildlife experts, who kept debating their expert opinion on the snake’s behavior and biology. Some researchers assumed that the snake was digesting a very large meal, hence its inactivity. Such a vast prey digestion process is extensively energy-absorbing, which makes the snake to lie in a very susceptible and almost comatose state. Digestion may take between a couple of days to even weeks.
According to herpetologists specializing in reptiles, large snakes have the possibility of surviving for weeks or even months without eating, because their digestive system is strongly efficient in extracting everything that can be taken from the food. The period was a rare chance for working people to see how a snake looks after it has found its next meal successfully and then relaxes for some period of time. According to experts, the size of the snake and its meal prove that the snake was definitely a thriving predator.
The herpetologists expected these meetings to help them understand the habits and needs of wild giant snakes. They believed that this incident would, eventually, call for much more human attention toward learning to appreciate reptiles, especially the misunderstood ones like snakes. It became a terrain for experts to present their knowledge when the experience of the workers had been turned into a ground for the presentation of knowledge, thus demystifying those fascinating creatures.
