Dramatic video (that’s not for the weak of stomach) shows a large python swallowing and throwing up an antelope in a town in India.The footage was reportedly made Monday in Gorakhpur in northern India, according to the Caters news service. A crowd of onlookers can be seen and heard in the video, with some poking the antelope with a stick.The onlookers seemed to crowd and stress out the snake, says Kenney Krysko, a herpetologist and collection manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainsville.”It’s sad because the antelope was wasted,” Krysko says. “It will be left to decay and be eaten by flies.”There’s “no chance” the snake would come back to finish its meal even if it was left alone by people, Krysko says. “That thing is partially digested and probably stinks already.”The snake will have to catch another meal, Krysko notes. (Learn about the colossal snake that died under mysterious circumstances.)Cold-blooded animals with slow metabolisms, snakes typically eat infrequently, often just a few times a year (especially when they take such large prey, which takes a long time for them to break down). Snakes are known to even go more than a year between meals.
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