PYTHON BREAKS HIS FAST

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1025, 30 March 1912, Page 4

PYTHON BREAKS HIS FAST

The big python at the Zoo has at last broken its fast, says the Sydney Morning Herald. There are uo hard-and-fast rules governing the appetites of snakes, and the python’s five months’ abstention irora food did not worry the director of the Gardens very much. The big snake since its advent here has disdained all the delicacies which are dear to most of its kind, and it was not until a halfgrown goat was put in its cage the other day that it exhibited any disposition to eat. The python seized the goat and proceeded to swallow it. For the first day or two the reptile plainly showed the result of its gorge, but on the third day it regained its normal girth. It would be interesting to know how long the python had fasted before it came into the possession of the Zoological Society. Moreover, the huge cocoanut crab at the Zoo has beeu “off its food,” and also showed an irrepressible inclination to wander. It escaped, but reappeared alter several days, looking bright and Iresh, and now it, too, has regained its appetite.