Box Turtle Enters Pythons Nest 01

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The burmese python has been incubating her eggs for five weeks now. All together it will take 60 days for the hatchlings to fully develop. During night time when the temperature drops, she will have to stay constantly coiled around the eggs to keep them warm. But night time is also the time when most predators are on the hunt for food and tonight she seems alert and nervous. Investigating the smallest movement near her nest until she discovers something lurking in the darkness.
With a swift bite she tries to scare off the intruder, a harmless Florida box turtle.
The box turtle is endemic to Florida. Its distinct shell with a hinged plastron offers ample protection from most predators. After recovering from the python’s attack, the turtle continues searching for food and purposefully cruising around the snake’s lair. Finally, the turtle decides to move in with the large python. But the snake won’t have non of it and blocks the entrance, which doesn’t stop the turtle at all.
Gopher tortoises share their burrows frequently with many snakes, including the venomous easter diamondback rattlesnake. But the python has to protect her eggs and the sharp claws of the turtle could easily damage them. At the moment she has no choice and accepts unwillingly the turtle’s intrusion. Soon the python grows agitated again, when the turtles scuffles with the bufo toad which moved in two weeks prior. The toad wants the turtle gone and so does the snake.
Relentlessly pushing and showing, the python finally is able to remove the turtle from its lair. The toad is wasting no time and returns to the safety of the den immediately. Turtles can be willful creatures and this one has a mind of her own. Nevertheless, a strike from a furious python settles the matter once and for all. The indigenous turtle got the message from the invasive species and moves on through the night to find shelter at a more placid location.
Python vs Turtle was filmed by Heiko Kiera aka Ojatro in 2016.

[@noticemeonii-chan5347]

This shit is so fucking funny if you have it on the faster, the speed to watch the video and I just like it how the turtle just went all around and there was a freaking toad just chilling on top of the snake

[@Agirmetal]

What is that huge frog doing there

[@christianlunajo2753]

Extra

[@William14094]

Turtle is either really brave...or really stupid

[@sanboykhumalo2935]

Why does the turtle keeps pulling up and down😂👀

[@MITO2911]

The pressure of the snake increased

[@balinda7388]

That turtle very beautiful! I'm not really sure either it is a very brave or it's really, really stupid! Lol! I would love to be there to watch the babies come out of there eggs! God bless all of y'all out there!

[@alphagojira5647]

@Vinny D Agreed.

[@godgrant123]

Pretty sure he kept placing the tortoise infront of the snake area...

[@ojatro]

It's a turtle!

[@winberdkiwewa6058]

Was wondering the same thing...lighting and all. This looks more of a studio

[@fuhrer3345]

nice videos

[@ojatro]

Thanks!

[@snakeman9902]

Is this a re release of a previous video? The accuracy of the strike is extraordinary.

[@ojatro]

Indeed I posted some of the footage previously... Thanks for watching.

[@snakeman9902]

@@ojatro no worries, keep them coming.

[@marciooliveiradasilvamarci2674]

monecio🙏👍👏

[@jasonirelan1737]

Is this gonna be a case of Gamera versus a giant snake? Take care and God bless.

[@user-mx4jl2uo7k]

Любопытно

[@miselbojovic3523]

Was this a frog?

[@Lou_Mansfield]

yes

[@user-ym9mn4dt2k]

여인의 사랑과 생애

[@jasonirelan1737]

I'm guessing the python is a female since it appears to be trying to incubate the eggs. If I'm right, it's time to say that the exotic snake is a she. Take care and God bless.

[@ojatro]

Yes, only female Burmese pythons incubate their eggs. Thanks for watching.

[@jasonirelan1737]

ojatro I don't know about incubation, but I do remember reading in a Reptiles magazine about another kind of snake that isn't dangerously venomous and can't get to be over ten feet long, which makes the snake a harmless creature to have as a pet whose female members of the species has maternal instincts when it comes to unhatched eggs. For the most part, female snakes don't have maternal instincts. This is one of those snakes that doesn't live in the American wilderness so I don't know what kind it is. Take care and God bless.