Giant python: Indonesians eat huge snake after man defeats reptile

A giant python in Indonesia met a shocking end when it was eaten after it lost a fight with a nearby man.

Security monitor Robert Nababan experienced the snake on a palm oil manor street in Sumatra's Batang Gansal locale on Saturday.

Mr Nababan attempted to get the python, reports say, which was 7.8m (26ft) long.

It assaulted him, and man and reptile battled until Mr Nababan slaughtered it with the assistance of a few villagers.

The protect made due with genuine wounds.

The python was not as fortunate as Mr Nababan - its body was hung for show at a town, before it was cleaved up, browned and eaten.

Mr Nababan disclosed to Indonesian news outlet Detik: "I endeavored to get it, my hand was chomped, and I figured out how to wrestle it."

The 37-year-old did not give a correct purpose behind why he attempted to get the python, yet said there were villagers who couldn't cross the street in view of the snake.

Changing reports say he was either attempting to guard frightened villagers or that he needed to clear the street.

Neighborhood police revealed to AFP news office that the python had sunk its teeth into the monitor's left arm and almost disjoined it.

He was taken to a doctor's facility in Pekanbaru city, where he is as yet recuperating, said Elinaryon, leader of the Batang Gansal area government.

The official, who like numerous Indonesians passes by one name, told the BBC that Mr Nababan's hand was seriously harmed and that specialists "may need to cut it off".

'Truly top notch'

He said goliath pythons were normal in his general vicinity, a remote area of Sumatra. "[There are] no less than 10 sightings of them a year. In the dry season they turn out searching for a drink, in the wet they turn out to clean up in the rain."

"There are generally heaps of mice in the palm oil ranches and that is the thing that they are chasing."

Mr Elinaryon said it was ill advised for individuals to handle the monster reptiles. "You truly shouldn't attempt... obviously the snake, on the off chance that you attempt and murder it, will get truly irate and that is the point at which it battles back!"

He was not amazed that the python was eaten. "I have gotten notification from companions that they are truly top notch. I mean it's a 7m wind - that is a ton of meat!"

"The blood, a few people accept, has recuperating qualities and can be utilized as a part of drug."

In March another experience with a monster wind turned out in an unexpected way, when an Indonesian villager was discovered dead in the paunch of a python.