Locals killed a мassiʋe snake after accusing it of eating a cow because of its huge belly and discovering that it was pregnant with hundreds of eggs.

The event occurred in Nigeria, where local media said the snake was killed following reports that it had been preying on farmers’ animals.

However, as these photographs reveal, the snake was not overweight as a result of its last meal; rather, she was pregnant. After being cut, hundreds of eggs were found and recovered by locals who view them as a unique delicacy. Although it was unclear what species of snake it was, several snakes can lay up to 100 eggs at a time.

Most online users seem to have little compassion for the snake, noting that it was a good thing that about a hundred young snakes were no longer produced.

The snake appears to be an anaconda based on its size, which appears to be almost a foot wide and many meters long.

However, because anacondas are only found in South America, the snake in the photo is probably an African rock python. Males are normally shorter than females, which can reach and exceed 4.8 m in length.

There have been ten reports of African rock pythons, the largest snake on the continent and one of the largest in the world, reaching lengths of up to 6½.

According to less reliable stories from the 1950s, a 7½ pregnant python was killed with a 1.5½ 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 inside, and a second eastern snake measuring 7.5½ was also shot to death.

The African rock python, like other pythons, is not poisonous and kills its ʋictiм ʋia constriction.

After grabbing the prey, the snake coils around it, tightening its coils with each exhalation of the ʋictiм.

Death is believed to be the result of cardiac arrest rather than asphyxiation or crushing.

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