Any idea on what the strike speed is for a Burmese Python?

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When I start to geek out a bit, this is what gets me: When talking about the giants..how do they move that much mass that quickly? The action potential generated by their muscles shouldn't be any faster or slower than any other snake (fatter/bigger vs slender/smaller snake..actin and myosin are pretty much the same). So, I get the strike speed in vipers (relatively smaller), but a big burm? That is a lot of snake to get moving really fast. Once that mass is moving, the kinetic energy would be enormous. Pretty amazing, really...by the data you supplied Nightflight, I'm guessing you could reasonably assume a strike speed in the neighborhood of 3-9 mph. Taking that kind of mass from a resting state to that kind of accelerated state in that time frame just blows me away.