A Snake Ate A Porcupine Only To Discover Some Snacks Aren't Worth The Risk

It looks like the type of shit Blanka used to pull on Street Fighter 2, but I kid you not - this is actually what happened when a snake ate a porcupine.

The footage isn't pretty and it appears to show a snake writhing in pain after being pierced by a porcupine's spikes.

Off camera, the now impaled reptile had attempted to eat the porcupine - but it came off worse when the animal defended itself with its quills.

Watch how it unfolded here...

Credit: Live Leak

The snake slithers and thrashes for almost two minutes, clearly in agony, while a man records its pain.

As always, the reaction to the animals going toe-to-toe was mixed.

One snake sympathiser wrote: "Help the poor thing out."

Credit: Live Leak

Another viewer added: "Bad day for the snake. Put it out of its misery. Looks painful"

However a third decided some banter was in order, writing: "That's a new fashion statement!"

Boa constrictors typically live on a diet of bats, mice, birds and lizards and take approximately four to six days to digest food.

I'm not sure this particular snake will be getting up from that one.

Featured Image Credit: Live Leak

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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