"It was obviously only semi-constricted and was also in shock until all of its senses kicked back in."

Editor’s note: Bill Kearney of the South Florida Sun Sentinel recently headed out to the Everglades, when the unexpected happened. It was the seventh alligator we’d seen on the two-mile bike ride through the sawgrass swamp of Everglades National Park.

The Animal Itself Python molurus can reach six metres in length and weigh over 90 kilograms. That makes it the largest snake in India and, by mass, one of the four heaviest snakes on Earth, behind only the reticulated python,