HUGE PYTHON ESCAPES
ATTACKS KEEPER IN CAGE A python, 28 feet long, escaped from its cage at the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens, Manchester, recently, and was at liberty for five hours. “The python,” said an official of the gardens, “is the largest in captivity, weighs three hundredweight and is over 50 years old.” It had been asleep for several weeks, as it was sloughing its skin, and in the morning, when the keeper went into the reptile’s cage, he thought that it was still sleeping. Suddenly, however, the python struck out at him. Fortunately, as the man ducked the snake’s head passed over him. But the reptile got out through the open door, and made its way to a gallery at the back of its cage. There it coiled up and apparently went to sleep again. “Later we got it back by tempting it with food, for as you can guess it was hungry after its long sleep,” said tire keeper. “At first we thought that it would have to be chloroformed.” The capture of the python was watched by large numbers of people visiting the pleasure grounds.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 786, 5 October 1929, Page 20
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