Viral Video: Giant python swallows fox in Jharkhand; locals watch in horror

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According to the post’s caption, pythons have surprisingly slow eating habits depending on their size: “Young pythons eat every 5–10 days, sub-adults every 10–14 days or once in 3–4 weeks, large adults as rarely as once every one to two months, depending on the size of the prey,” it said.

National Geographic explains how these snakes manage to eat animals far bigger than their head. Thanks to flexible ligaments and independently moving skull bones, a python’s jaws can open wide enough to “walk” prey into its throat.

The video triggered a wave of reactions online. “Let it eat in peace,” one user commented. “This sort of attention would surely have made the python nervous, thus regurgitating its food!”

Others turned to humour. One said, “Python eating frontend and backend,” while another wrote, “This is the correct representation of cameraman capturing you eat in wedding.” One user captured the struggle of students everywhere: “Me trying to cover the entire syllabus one day before.”

This isn’t the first time such an incident has made headlines. In 2024, a 16-foot-long python swallowed a calf near Parana village in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra. The snake was found by shepherds with most of the calf already lodged inside its body.