Squeeze is a 13 - foot , 70 - pound female African rock-and-roll python who strikes quicker than the blink of an eye and can spiral around a deer until it dies of a heart attack . As a mother , she ’s just as savage . In a new hour - longprogramcalledQueen of the Pythons , Smithsonian Channel play along Squeeze through the South African savanna on her journeying to maternal bliss , which include the mesmerize footage below of her laying a colossal clasp of nut .
Do n’t be fooled by the average appearance of the egg : Each weighs about as much as a billiard testis , and she ’s been haul around almost 50 of them for weeks while she searches for the unadulterated office to lay them . As the picture ’s narrator explain , she eventually slithers into a hollow beneath an old silver gray oak tree tree diagram , which will not only shelter her family from bad weather , but also keep the eggs ’ temperature consistent and conceal them from likely predator like monitor lizards and mongoose .
As Geek.comreports , Squeeze usually has to contend with preventative from nearby humans and the ever - present threat of home ground loss . But everything stops for 90 days while she ’s obliterate in the hollow , tightly curl around her unborn materialisation ; she ’ll only leave sparingly for a boozing of water or abbreviated soaking in the sunlight , which will aid her warm the eggs .
“ For an beast equal to of such monumental displays of power , ” the storyteller maintain , “ she can be astonishingly parental . ” And , in fact , she ’s one of only a few metal money ofsnakesthat are enate at all . Most Snake River run to lay their orchis and leave them to the mercy of Mother Nature .
To find out what happens next , line in toQueen of the Pythonstonight at 8 p.m. ET on the Smithsonian Channel .
