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Updated: May 10, 2025
They often coiled tip in folds, equalling a large sized cartwheel in size, and harmlessly received their food. In most accounts current respecting the mode in which boas and pythons take their food, the snake, after crushing its prey, is described as licking the body with its tongue and lubricating it with its saliva, in order to facilitate the act of deglutition.
Alice expressed some anxiety at first that the proximity of the strange creatures might prove unpleasant to us, and she strictly forbade little Erasmus associating with the pythons or pulling the crocodiles' tails. Mr.
He has not any big game to deal with, unless we except pythons which attain a great size on the island and crocodiles. The Bubis use in their hunting flint-lock guns, but chiefly traps and nets, and, I am told, slings. The advantage of these latter methods are, I expect, the same as on the mainland, where a distinguished sportsman once told me: "You go shoot thing with gun.
"But," said Tom, to Bob's very great delight, for he could see his companion's alarm, "how about the boa-constrictors?" "Pythons, your people call them," said Ali. "Yes, there are plenty of them in the wet places." "Dangerous?" "No," said Ali, "I never knew them to be only to the little pigs." "But ain't they very large?" "Oh, yes," was the reply, "big as my leg, and so long."
It turned out to be as I expected; my visitor was one of the last local fishermen, and brought with him a splendid silver eel, weighing nearly 4 lb., taken in his nets that evening just opposite Chiswick Eyot. It was the largest eel taken so low down for some years, and when held up at arm's length, was a good imitation of one of Madame Paula's pythons in the advertisement.
In the back yard there are two white bear cubs, a baby elephant, a nest of pythons, half a dozen ostriches, a learned pig, several alligators and crocodiles, and a giant sloth from South America.
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