Cats are more agile than snakes. They often catch snakes as food. Can snakes kill cats?
People on the Internet like to say that cats are seven times faster than cats, and what they mean is cats’ speed and agility. The cat has excellent physical fitness. Except for its smaller size, there are no major flaws in other aspects. It is fast and agile, and its claws can penetrate into quite narrow gaps to hook the mice out; cats that often move by the water can also quickly catch fish in the water. They do not need to go into the water, and they also quickly hook the fish with their claws.
The ancestors of modern domestic cats may be wild cats that live in African jungle areas or Middle Eastern desert areas. Because their living environment is relatively warm, modern domestic cats are a little afraid of the cold and like to stay in warm places. Sometimes their hair is burnt and unwilling to leave. As a smaller predator, cats have a wide range of recipes, mainly small rodents, such as mice and voles, which can also catch insects and birds, lizards and snakes, and occasionally cats can be seen catching fish in the water. Flying in the sky, climbing in the ground, swimming in the water without them, they dare not do it.
Cats are also a common phenomenon, mainly due to food demand or curiosity. Cats’ strategies for catching snakes are also very good. They do not directly suppress the snake by brute force, and it is difficult to suppress the cat’s body shape. They mainly rely on constant harassment, and rely on their flexible upper limbs to stretch and tease the snake. The cat has long hair on its body surface. Even if the snake attacks, it may only bite its hair. It is not time to bite it tightly and wrap it around, and the poisonous snake will find it difficult to quickly inject venom. The cat's hind limbs are also very powerful, and the cat can jump away quickly at the moment of the snake's attack.
Snakes are cold-blooded animals. They lack a temperature regulation center and therefore need to rely on the environment to maintain body temperature. However, when snakes move, they will also generate heat in their bodies. When it is hot in summer, snakes like to hide in cool places. If the sun is exposed to the sun, the snake will not be long before it will be sunburned to death. Under the continuous harassment of the cat, the snake's body temperature rose and its brain went down and its agility decreased. Fatigue caused the snake to no longer be willing to move. At this time, the cat easily caught the snake.
In nature, there are also some agile animals with cat-like bodies that prey on snakes, and the methods they take are roughly the same. However, the snake's attack speed is still very fast. The cat fights alone, unlike the gentiles who attack them from groups and harass the snake from all directions. And when a cat faces a snake alone, won’t there be any accident? The answer is yes. As we said, you can’t walk by the river without getting wet your shoes. Ordinary domestic cats provoke snakes less than one meter long, and the chances of being killed by cats are greater. However, as the contact between cats and snakes increases, the possibility of snakes successfully killing cats also increases.
Due to the size of a cat, most snakes will not treat cats as prey because they cannot swallow cats at all. Fighting with cats is just a waste of physical strength, and even if they kill the other party, they cannot eat it. Usually, the "dragon and tiger fight" is because the cat notices the snake and goes up to tease the snake. However, cats dare to provoke snakes with a body size smaller than or slightly larger than themselves. Although their intelligence is not very good, cats probably know what kind of animals cannot provoke. When facing the python, the cat's body size advantage is no longer there. Although it is still very agile, the chance of being defeated by the snake also increases.
When cats provoke snakes, most cases of cat death are bitten by poisonous snakes. Sometimes cats are too curious and are very sensitive to some moving things. This is what it means to tease cats, but cats can easily lose interest in teasing people. When facing moving reptiles in the wild, they have higher interests. They need to get close to the snake when teasing them, and being bitten is also common. Sometimes, unfortunately, they are provoked by highly venomous snakes, and there are many cases of being poisoned to death. There are cases of venomous snakes venomous cats in Southeast Asia and Australia.
The python has a great advantage over the cat. The python can grow up to three or four meters long and dozens of kilograms. Not only does it crush the cat by its size, it is also an existence that cats dare not provoke at will. Usually, pythons move in rainforests and wetlands with abundant food, and will catch birds and small-sized mammals, relying on their ambitions but bizarreness. Usually, it is stealth hunting. When the prey hits its beak, it suddenly starts to rise. Even birds and cats that react quickly can hardly hide. There are still many cats swallowed by pythons, and they will take the initiative to treat the cat as their prey.
Boons often move in tropical or subtropical areas. These areas have warm climates suitable for cold-blooded animals such as snakes. Cats also have more activities in humid areas such as rainforests, and abundant food. The climate is also suitable for cats. The increase in the chances of contact between the two will increase the chance of cats being swallowed.
There have been cases of python swallowing cats in Southeast Asia and Australia. There is a very sad case in Australia. The owner is indoors and the cat is moving outside the house and is stared at by a python. In a few minutes, the cat is entangled and suffocated and quickly swallowed. At this time, the cat owner caught the python and took it to the pet hospital for X-rays, and clearly saw the cat being eaten by the python.
