In Indonesia, a mouse appeared to be pleading for help when it was suffocated by a 3-foot-long python before being deʋorated whole, arms outstretched and seal open. Dzul Dzulfikri, a 48-year-old reptile owner from Indonesia, took the photos earlier this year while feeding his pet an ʋiʋa rat. Dzulfikri put the mouse in the python’s cage and then grabbed its camera as the predator pounced on its prey, wrapping its tail around it and crushing it to death over a period of five minutes.
While pythons can be trained to eat frozen mice, most of them prefer to eat live like themselves, which is why Dzufikri fed her pet live food. “While I was ecstatic to have these photographs, I was horrified by the mouse as I watched it struggle in its final moments,” he said. During a feeding session earlier this year, Indonesian python owner Dzul Dzulfikri captured this image of a mouse appearing to beg for help while being strangled to death by his pet snake.
Dzufikri said he put the ʋiʋo mouse in his python’s cage and then grabbed his camera to record the seconds the snake struck and squeezed its point to death. The python consumed the mouse completely after it. By unhinging their jaws, most snakes can finish their meal in one go and won’t need to eat for weeks, if not months. If captive pythons can be trained to eat frozen mice, their natural diet consists of fresh chickens, so even if they are kept as pets, it will be necessary to give them young chickens.
