{"id":210902,"date":"2025-12-02T06:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210902\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:14:09","slug":"giant-python-caught-after-swallowing-dog-bangkok-post-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/210902\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant python caught after swallowing dog Bangkok Post Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c1_3147834_800.jpg\"   alt=\"Rescuers hold the 3-metre python captured in a residential area in tambon Nai Muang in Muang Phon district of Khon Kaen on Sunday. It was released into the wild well away from human habitation. (Photo: Chakkrapan Natanri)\" class=\"img-fluid\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRescuers hold the 3-metre python captured in a residential area in tambon Nai Muang in Muang Phon district of Khon Kaen on Sunday. It was released into the wild well away from human habitation. (Photo: Chakkrapan Natanri)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A giant python roaming a road in Khon Kaen was captured and released back into the wild after it swallowed a dog.<\/p>\n<p>Online pages across the northeastern province shared images of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"32338\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rescuers<\/a> holding the huge snake after catching it in tambon Nai Muang.<\/p>\n<p>Police and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"32338\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rescuers<\/a> were informed that the reptile had been spotted near the road for a couple of days. They went and found it, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"12213\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">python<\/a> about three metres long, in a wooded area behind a hotel on Charoensuk Road.<\/p>\n<p>Its movements were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"14290\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sluggish<\/a> and it was easily caught, probably because it had very recently hunted and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"15434\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">swallowed<\/a> another animal, which was partly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"17090\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visible<\/a> at the entrance to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"15956\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">throat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When it was released into a forest the snake then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"17143\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vomited<\/a> up a dead brown dog.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 men were needed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/learning\/easy\/3147834\/javascript:;\" data-id=\"2223\" class=\"link-vocab\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#vocab-item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">capture<\/a> and hold the snake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers hold the 3-metre python captured in a residential area in tambon Nai Muang in Muang Phon district&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[115323,115324,18,19,17,115322,115325,115326,5989,133,20562,461],"class_list":{"0":"post-210902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bangkok-post","9":"tag-bangkok-post-learning","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-khon-kaen-bangkokpost","14":"tag-learn-english","15":"tag-learn-english-from-news","16":"tag-learning","17":"tag-science","18":"tag-snake","19":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115648506583827587","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}