{"id":181832,"date":"2025-12-13T12:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181832\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:35:06","slug":"giant-python-captured-behind-home-in-malaysia-villagers-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181832\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant python captured behind home in Malaysia, villagers &#8216;shocked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>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\">New Straits Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The python was spotted coiled behind the house in dim light at about 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>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><a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/outdoors\/2025\/12\/11\/dinosaur-shoebill-bird-stalks-devours-snake-uganda-swamp\/87721050007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ALSO: Enormous &#8216;dinosaur bird&#8217; stalks, devours snake in Uganda swamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malaysia is home to several types of pythons, the largest being the reticulated python, which can measure nearly 30 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The Jasin Civil Defense Force posed for the accompanying photo before transporting the python to a remote area far from homes.<\/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":181833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[9540,1775,429,111,43,139,69,9543,428,450,34639,34640,6647,9545,147,9538,431,406],"class_list":["post-181832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-amphibians","tag-malaysia","tag-neutral","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offbeat","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-pythons","tag-pythons-snakes","tag-reptiles","tag-reptiles-u0026-amphibians","tag-science","tag-snakes","tag-u0026","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}