Serpents can go longer without food than any other animals. One that used to be in a French menagerie refused to eat for nearly two years. An anaconda (large serpent) in the same menagerie had only thirty-four meals in five and a half years.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20233, 17 February 1934, Page 9
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