[Skybird]

A German snake and python specialist is wondering a bit, too. He says it is believable that the snake fell from the ceiling/the ventilator shaft and onto the ground, was in shock, and highly aroused, the boys woke up and raised - then the snake only sees thermal hot spots, and snaps at the first. If then the other boy in darkness stumbled over the body of the reptile or its tail, it could be that the snake immediately attacked him, too, and strangled both boys simultaneously, because pythons react extremely aggressive if they fight or eat and get touched in the lower quarter of their body then (the tail). He said that everybody handling pythons knows that one should not touch their tails when they eat.

However, this expert says he wonders why the police report, as far as he knows, mentions no surfical injuries of the bodies from the teeth, and why there was no saliva. a 5m python already would have quite long teeth, and the snake attacks by biting first and the wrangling its body around the victim. This could leave long, bloody scars on the head of the victim, for example, and then there should also be saliva, even more so when the python tried to swallow one boy, which might work with the head, but not with the shoulders - so the boy would have gotten spit out.

Also, if it were obvious that the python killed the boys, one wonders why they do an autopsy. It seems they are not certain.