It’s not often one gets to see an African Rock Python in the wild and it’s even rarer to see one of these huge snakes – the largest in Africa – with its victim. A heartbreaking moment of a monkey losing its life to a python attack while its friends tried their best to save it.
Python snake strangles a monkey to death while monkeys tried to save their friend
The snake coiled fiercely around the monkey until it ran out of breath. And as the python coiled itself, a troupe of monkeys surrounded the snake and tried to free their friend. An entire group of monkeys tried to save their friend but whenever one of them got close to the snake, it would show its bare fangs and scare them all away.
The python had two full coils round the monkey’s torso. There were no signs of life from the victim. But it had clearly not succumbed without a fight, for I could see bloody wounds on the python’s body, inflicted by the desperate monkey’s sharp teeth.
After it had killed the monkey, the hungry snake began the process of dragging the Vervet monkey into nearby bushes. Despite its size the python made light work of its mammoth meal, dislocating its jaw as it ate the unfortunate monkey in one go.
Despite receiving injuries during the attack, the Monkey was killed by asphyxiation, rather than poison or biting. The python is one of the constrictor breeds of snakes – meaning they squeeze the life out of their prey before swallowing them whole. After it finished the meal, the shape of the swallowed monkey could be seen inside the body of the lethargic snake.
The shape of the swallowed Monkey could be seen inside the body of the snake
It was touching to see monkeys help his friend from dying but I felt so sorry for them, because they could not have saved their friend.
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