Python bites Indian man taking selfie in Rajasthan; workers find 33-foot anaconda in Brazil

Forest Department official removed a python from a school in Rajasthan, a state in northwestern India and holding it picture taking when the snake bit a man. The victim moved in closer for a selfie when he was attacked by the python.

India Today reports the snake suddenly lunged forward and bit the selfie-taker on the shoulder. Authorities removed the python away. The Indian man suffered only minor injuries.

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Source: T News

In Brazil, construction workers discovered a 33-foot anaconda at a construction site, breaking the record 26-foot python that construction workers also found and Malaysian Civil Defense Force staff captured in Penang on April 12. The Brazilian workers saw the anaconda at the Belo Monte Dam site after they set off an explosion to blast a cave which stood in the way of construction work.

The snake weighed about 400 kilogrammes, reports Inquistr. The cave where they found it is by the Xingu River in Altamirana town, Para State where workers are constructing the Belo Monte Dam, a hydroelectric dam complex expected to be the fourth-largest in the world after completion.

The workers killed the anaconda, lifted it with a crane, loaded on a truck and moved away from the site. Since the video of the capture was uploaded on Feb 1 by YouTuber Alexandre Flores, the clip had more than 500,000 views. It was also uploaded on Weird Animal Channels where it has more than 2 million hits.

Some angry animal lovers and activists criticised the construction workers for killing the anaconda but the construction workers said the snake was killed accidentally by the explosion. However, one commenter claims it appears the workers smashed the anaconda’s head.

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Source: Weird Animals