PYTHON’S LONG FAST.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15908, 21 August 1923, Page 4

PYTHON’S LONG FAST.

30 MONTHS WITHOUT EATING. The end of a record hunger strike is narrated by the London Evening Standard. For two and a half years an Indian python at the London Zoo had refused to have anything to do with food. He did not make any fuss of the matter, nor did anyone else. The affair was accepted as something that could not he helped. The inmates of the reptile house are fed regularly every Friday, but while everybody around him was having his meal, this python .obstinately declined. Food was left each time to tempt him. but no matter what the menu might be, he displayed not the slightest interest. Water, however, he drank regularly, and to this, combined with the nourishment from the fat on his body, he owed his life. With some concern of late, the keeper noticed the python’s increasing flabbiness, and the snake began to show quite exceptional liveliness. His desire to eat could no longer be restrained, so a pigeon was hastily killed and offered to him. It is expected now that the python will eat regularly.