Wildlife rangers hold up a sedated python, measuring 30ft (9m) long and weighing almost 16st (101kg).
They incapacitated the 9m-long man-eating snake after it slithered into a village.
The dozy reptile was then transported from Kampar, Indonesia, before being released into a jungle in Pelalawan.
It was bigger than the 23ft (7m) python that swallowed a woman in Indonesia in 2018.
They can reach lengths of more than 10m (32ft) and are very powerful.
They attack in an ambush, wrapping themselves around their prey and crushing it - squeezing tighter as the victim exhales.
They kill by suffocation or cardiac arrest within minutes.
Pythons swallow their food whole. Their jaws are connected by very flexible ligaments so they can stretch around large prey.
When it comes to eating humans, "the restricting factor is human shoulder blades because they are not collapsible," Mary-Ruth Low, conservation & research officer for Wildlife Reserves Singapore and a reticulated python expert, told.
They incapacitated the 9m-long man-eating snake after it slithered into a village.
The dozy reptile was then transported from Kampar, Indonesia, before being released into a jungle in Pelalawan.
It was bigger than the 23ft (7m) python that swallowed a woman in Indonesia in 2018.
They can reach lengths of more than 10m (32ft) and are very powerful.
They attack in an ambush, wrapping themselves around their prey and crushing it - squeezing tighter as the victim exhales.
They kill by suffocation or cardiac arrest within minutes.
Pythons swallow their food whole. Their jaws are connected by very flexible ligaments so they can stretch around large prey.
When it comes to eating humans, "the restricting factor is human shoulder blades because they are not collapsible," Mary-Ruth Low, conservation & research officer for Wildlife Reserves Singapore and a reticulated python expert, told.
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