Sri Lankan Python These pictures are real and live which were taken in September, 1997 at the Aralaganwila Farm which belongs to the Mahaweli Authority, Sri Lanka. This Farm is not stranger to wild beasts.

Situated in Polonnaruwa, surrounded by thick jungle, this plant nursery had a rather unwelcome visitor - a large python who slithered into the Farm premises one day in September, 1997 and claimed as prey a DOG living there.

The python was first spotted locked in deep battle with a well-grown dog by farm workers. The snake had gripped the dog so hard that it was impossible to save the animal. People gathered to watch this scene. Then sensing strange eyes on him and disturbed by the people watching, the python had slipped away to a crop field close by, leaving the dead dog behind.

Farm Manager (Rajapakse) and his co-workers had moved aside and left the body undisturbed. A few minutes lapsed before the snake came back to claim its kill.

As you can see, the python squeezed the life out of the dog who could not even struggle to escape from the snake's grip. As captured on camera, the dog was swallowed head first and then the whole.

For two days the snake lay motionless by the crop field, digesting its large meal and then, after two days, he crawled into the forest nearby.

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