{"id":183678,"date":"2025-12-14T04:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/183678\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T04:29:10","slug":"massive-21-foot-python-captured-behind-home-in-malaysian-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/183678\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive, 21-foot python captured behind home in Malaysian village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A python measuring 21 feet and weighing more than 200 pounds was captured this week behind a home in the Malaysian district of Jasin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The discovery of the enormous reptile left villagers \u201cshocked,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/regional\/2025\/12\/1335424\/100kg-python-found-behind-house-leaves-villagers-shocked\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Straits Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The python was spotted coiled behind the house in dim light at about 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Nine-man crew poses with python.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"576\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b5fd5e889eb78875dd8dde7225de2990.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nine-man crew poses with python.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Jasin Civil Defense Force was summoned and captured the python after about 10 minutes, despite the python attacking its crew several times.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/massive-dinosaur-bird-stalks-devours-201555847.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:ALSO: Enormous &#039;dinosaur bird&#039; stalks, devours snake in Uganda swamp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: Enormous &#8216;dinosaur bird&#8217; stalks, devours snake in Uganda swamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Malaysia is home to several types of pythons, the largest being the reticulated python, which can measure nearly 30 feet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Jasin Civil Defense Force posed for the accompanying photo before transporting the python to a remote area far from homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/12\/12\/giant-python-captured-behind-home-malaysia-villagers-shocked\/87743403007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Giant python captured behind home in Malaysia, villagers &#039;shocked&#039;;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Giant python captured behind home in Malaysia, villagers &#8216;shocked&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A python measuring 21 feet and weighing more than 200 pounds was captured this week behind a home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[85,46,106613,99246,141,386],"class_list":{"0":"post-183678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-jasin-civil-defense-force","11":"tag-reticulated-python","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}