Python Eats Dog

Photo credit: One Dead President/Creative Commons

In the US, we occasionally hear of pets snatched by cougars or coyotes. In Australia . . . well, you'll see.



This snake is a scrub python, also called the amethystine python. Members of this species have occasionally attacked children, as discussed in Deadly Kingdom, but they are probably too slender to actually eat a human.

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