--- description: The meal could take a week to digest title: See a Python Eat Enough Food for 3 Months At 1 Sitting image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # See a Python Eat Enough Food for 3 Months at 1 Sitting by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2014 5:22 PM CUT by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 30, 2014 5:22 PM CUT 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: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3649411/python-baby-wallaby/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3649411/python-baby-wallaby/"},"headline":"See a Python Eat Enough Food for 3 Months at 1 Sitting","datePublished":"2014-12-30T17:22:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:35.411Z","description":"The meal could take a week to digest","url":"https://time.com/3649411/python-baby-wallaby/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Australia","Food","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3649411/python-baby-wallaby/","name":"See a Python Eat Enough Food for 3 Months at 1 Sitting"}}]}] ```