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Huge python makes a meal of 11 Malaysian guard dogs

26 Jan 2007 02:36:26 GMT
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Guard dogs protecting a fruit orchard in Malaysia have met their match -- a 7.1-metre-long (23-ft-long) python that swallowed at least 11 hounds before it was finally discovered by villagers.

"I was shocked to see such a huge python," orchard-keeper Ali Yusof told the New Straits Times in an article published beneath a picture of the captured snake, which was almost long enough to span the width of a tennis court and as thick as a tree trunk.

Villagers did not harm the snake, which was tied to a tree then handed to wildlife officials, the paper said on Friday.

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Last updated:Fri Jan 26 02:37:22 2007