A rare reticulated python weighing 30 kilos has been found wrapping and killing a monkey in Son Tra Peninsula in the central city of Danang.
A rare reticulated python is found wrapping and killing a monkey in Danang on October 9.
According to local forest rangers, the python was discovered on Sunday by a group of people who were searching for a severely injured monkey in the area to provide treatment.
The python, which weighs around 30 kilos and measures four metres in length, was found squeezing the monkey on a sidewalk along Le Van Luong Street.
The group tried to save the monkey from the python but failed. They then informed local forest rangers who arrived and captured the python. And they found that the monkey was dead. It was a rhesus macaque, not a red-shanked douc which is listed as endangered.
Forest rangers said that this was the first time such a huge python was seen in this location. The python was then taken to their station for further care before being released back into the wild.
The reticulated python is listed in Vietnam's Red Data Book of rare and endangered species.