SWALLOWING A FRIEND.
LONDON ZOO'S APOLOGETIC CANNIBAL KING SNAKE. ■ Mingled emotions are filling the breast of the London Zoo's big king snake (says the "Daily.Mail"). . He has lost his. lifelong (and somewhat smaller) friend, but found simultaneously a satisfying meal— the first providing the second. King snakes will cat any other species of serpent but their own, and it,was really not the fault of the Zoo's surviving specimen that the tragedy took place. The two friends both selected tho same rat for a meal, and started, amicably enough, on opposite ends. Inevitably, the heads of the two''diners met somewhere about the rat's, waist-line. Their teeth are. inclined backwards, like a python's, and they could not relax their grips, so there was no turning back for either. It became a fateful contest as to which could yawn the widest. The bigger snoko won, n'ud continued Ihe meal alone until the tip of his late companion's tail had vanished. ■ He swallowed his friend with many apologies, but fate and his dontnl arrangements were too strong for him. The survivor is now.doing well.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 2
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180SWALLOWING A FRIEND. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1553, 24 September 1912, Page 2
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