Nature Note From Mhow: This Baby Python Was Unlucky...
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Tags: Mhow Indore Madhya Pradesh Nature Snake Python Python molurus
Tags: Mhow Indore Madhya Pradesh Nature Snake Python Python molurus
Mhow, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Morning (around 7 am), Monday, 12 May 2008
Camera: SONY DSC H9
Nature Note From Mhow: This Baby Python Was Unlucky...
Archana, my friend Anurag's wife, rang me early today morning and told me that they were witnessing the rare sight of a Krait which had killed a baby python and was trying to eat it. She asked me whether I wanted to come over to their farmhouse with my camera and record the event. I didnt need a second invitation. I rushed over. But when I reached the farm Anurag told me that the krait had vanished. He had captured a video of the krait trying to eat the python.
The baby python was in the biomass used as a mulch in a bed of brinjal plants. It still had some life in it when I clicked the initial pictures. But it had almost certainly died by the time I clicked the last of the pictures you can see below.
We left it at the same spot and went to have a cup of tea. When we returned it was not there anymore. In all probability one of the crows we saw flying around may have taken it away.
A sad event. The baby python may have grown into a fascinating adult if it wasn't unlucky today. But then thats nature. Death is as much a part of it as birth. And the young of most fauna are vulnerbale.
Click here to read the Wikipedia article on the Indian Python (Python molurus)
The previous nature note from Mhow: The Beautiful Amaltas...
Morning (around 7 am), Monday, 12 May 2008
Camera: SONY DSC H9
Nature Note From Mhow: This Baby Python Was Unlucky...
Archana, my friend Anurag's wife, rang me early today morning and told me that they were witnessing the rare sight of a Krait which had killed a baby python and was trying to eat it. She asked me whether I wanted to come over to their farmhouse with my camera and record the event. I didnt need a second invitation. I rushed over. But when I reached the farm Anurag told me that the krait had vanished. He had captured a video of the krait trying to eat the python.
The baby python was in the biomass used as a mulch in a bed of brinjal plants. It still had some life in it when I clicked the initial pictures. But it had almost certainly died by the time I clicked the last of the pictures you can see below.
We left it at the same spot and went to have a cup of tea. When we returned it was not there anymore. In all probability one of the crows we saw flying around may have taken it away.
A sad event. The baby python may have grown into a fascinating adult if it wasn't unlucky today. But then thats nature. Death is as much a part of it as birth. And the young of most fauna are vulnerbale.
The previous nature note from Mhow: The Beautiful Amaltas...
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