See a Python Eat Enough Food for 3 Months at 1 Sitting

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And you thought you ate too much over the holidays.

Australia’s Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Facebook page posted images of a python with “about the biggest prey item it could eat”: A whole baby wallaby.

Images show the snake wrapping around the wallaby to suffocate the creature before eating it whole. The meal would take almost a week to digest and could sustain the snake for up to three months. Here are the (somewhat graphic) images:

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