Sheep in a snake
Sounds like a great name for a film, eh? In fact, we just cannot resist posting this picture of a python that has swallowed a pregnant ewe.
The photo was taken in the Malaysian village of Kampung Jabor, east of Kuala Lumpur. The Reuters caption adds that the six-metre reptile weighed 90kg and was "too laden to move, making it easy for firemen to capture it".
Quite why they wanted to capture it is unclear. Perhaps they'd been reading their River Cottage cookbooks?
what the hell was that in that snakes body?
Posted by: ALANA | 27 May 2009 01:29:42
ooooooooooopppppppppppssss waooo i need that snake who can eat my all enemies.
Posted by: mimi | 4 May 2009 09:50:38
what did the snake eat??
Posted by: jordan | 23 Jan 2009 03:35:05
i dont no wat u guys r all so surprised about, as if u've never heard or seen dat b4. although it is really cool!
Posted by: twilight rox ass | 3 Dec 2008 05:55:12
What a terrible scence!
Posted by: Davy | 29 Nov 2008 09:13:17
I'VE NEVER SEEN A SNAKE LIKE THAT IN MY WHOLE INTIRE LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Mike Porter | 8 Jul 2008 17:48:05
What! Slice the snake open to save the sheep? Now thats a funny statement. I suppose snakes don't need to eat to survive?
Posted by: majin_boo | 6 Jul 2008 22:39:02
Hey Chloe, the animal is dead or mostly dead by the time it's swallowed, you idiot. Cutting open the snake would just lead to two dead animals.
Posted by: Mer | 4 Jul 2008 21:14:52
that is so disgusting the people should hav sliced that ugly thing open and get tht poor sheep out
Posted by: chloe smith | 14 Jun 2008 19:51:22
i like this picture of the python yhat swallowed the ship keep it up
Posted by: bucho | 21 May 2008 09:43:07
hot damn. this is one hell of a big snake.. i read johan's comment and made me think of the reptile discarding the prey to escape.. ewww. i have some imagination and i dont think its a good sight...and i agree with the lesson of the story : don't be greedy!!!!
Posted by: iya balajadia | 21 Apr 2008 12:35:07
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: dani | 2 Apr 2008 18:36:08
Dats A big Ass Snake
Posted by: Snake Chick | 16 Jul 2007 01:33:15
That's really got my goat..!
Posted by: Guy Middleton | 17 Feb 2007 11:48:04
Brian, many thanks for the correction. Imperial it is! See the trouble I have with life ever since the conversion? Not only do I get the units all mixed up, I even have problems with their before-and-after labels. And to think that I'm still wallowing in the bygone era of Empire (you can now forgive me for my fondness with the word "empirical", I'm sure) when the standard unit then was "imperial". What a mess!
Posted by: Johan Adam Wong | 13 Sep 2006 12:06:04
Johan, isn't it "imperial" not "emperical"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_unit
Posted by: brian | 11 Sep 2006 00:31:17
Sorry, folks. The 20-metre critter was meant to be 20 feet long. Even Hollywood would have scoffed at the idea of a 20-metre anachonda. Who'd believe it?
But seriously, exaggeration wasn't my intent. See, I have this perversed habit of involutarily mixing up the metric with the empirical. It's dogged me since the blardy conversion. And my zero-handicap golf scores have gone kaput ever since.
Posted by: Johan Adam Wong | 8 Sep 2006 14:18:33
I was in Malaysia the day this story was published so I had the opportunity to get the fuller picture, literally. The New Straits Times (NST) ran the story with 3 images of the caught reptile and it's really bizzare.
First off, would you believe that the reptile tried to escape being caught by throwing up the carcass of the pregnant ewe it had just swallowed. The published images showed very clearly the "ejected" food. Gruesome sight it is, trust me.
No mention was made as to why the reptile was caught, but the story did give a pretty clear account of how it happened. The reptile, laden with biting off more than it can chew (or rather swallow, as the NST story puts it), was coiled up in some place happily regurgitating its supper when it was pounced on by a swarm of snake catchers. In a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to escape its captors, the python promptly discarded her dinner by vomitting it out. The irony is that it was caught while lightening the load off her gut. See, the stuff came out as slowly as it went in. Tough!
Last I heard, the 20 metre critter is safely tucked away in some rehab point awaiting transfer to a zoo.
Moral of the story: don't get greedy. Just bite off from life what one can comfortably chew. Never stuff and swallow if you don't want to end up in one of the seven gates of hell.
Posted by: Johan Adam Wong | 7 Sep 2006 12:04:24