This Video Of A Huge Python Attacking A Goat Will Send Chills Down Your Spine

Pythons, unlike cobras, vipers and rattlesnakes, are not venomous. It suffocates its prey rather than killing it with a bite, coiling around it and tightening its muscles firmly to block blood flow before swallowing. A similar incident is making waves on social media where a huge python can be seen tightening its grip over a goat in the woods before swallowing. A video showing the massive python strengthening its grasp on a goat is being circulated online.

Parveen Kaswan, an Indian Forest Services (IFS) official, recently shared the clip, wondering whether people would try to save the goat or let the python devour its prey. The video opens with the huge python tightening its grip over a goat in the forest. As the goat lay motionless the python moves its head and looks around.

“A huge python got hold of a goat. What you would have done in this situation. Save the goat or let nature take its course!!,” the caption on X reads.

Shared on July 31, the video has collected over 89,000 views.

A user commented, “That’s the natural way of things. How many goats or pythons could I save? Let destiny take its course. We shouldn’t interfere with it using our human consciousness. The most human thing I could do is to stay away.”

Another said, “It’s food for the python, a requisite for its survival. If you want to save the goat, give the python food. Or let nature do its thang.”

“Let nature take its course,” said a user on X.

“It’s better we don’t interfere with nature and its course, isn’t it? Already we are doing by taking their land away. If we try taking their food.. hmm,” read another comment.

In July, a man narrowly escaped an attack from a 15-foot-long python in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur. The terrifying occurrence, which was captured on camera, showed the snake surrounding the man’s neck while he defecated in an open field.

The man’s life was rescued by a group of villagers who acted quickly and decisively.