Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Giant pythons keep attacking Indonesian people — and people might be to blame

This handout picture taken on September 30, 2017 and released on October 4, 2017 by the Batang Gansal Police shows villagers beside a 7.8 metre (25.6 foot) long python which was killed after it attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra island.
In all the man-versus-python stories, the snake is almost always the coldblooded antagonist. Reticulated pythons like the ones involved in two attacks in Indonesia this year are among the world’s longest and strongest. They kill by coiling around their prey and squeezing until its heart stops. Then the serpents swallow their victims whole. It’s certainly […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2017/10/04/giant-pythons-keep-attacking-indonesian-people-and-people-might-be-to-blame/
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