Mistaken for Chicken Eggs, Snake Eat Four Golf Balls
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
A python which mistakenly eaten four golf ball for chicken eggs, has been saved after surgery. A couple placed the balls in their chicken nest to encourage their hen to nest.
LinkThey took the 80-centimeter (32-inch) non-venomous snake to the nearby Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, where senior veterinarian Michael Pyne operated to remove the balls from the snake's intestine.
'Those golf balls weren't moving any further; they were stuck where they were,' Pyne said.
'If it hadn't been found, it would have died for sure,' he added.
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