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 be' 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. Y/ater, however, he drank regularly, and to this, combined with the nourishment from the fat on his body, he owed his life. With s,ome 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.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15922, 10 September 1923, Page 2
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