{"id":275,"date":"2025-06-09T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2025-06-09T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T15:54:08","slug":"watch-python-struggles-to-escape-after-being-impaled-by-horns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Python Struggles To Escape After Being Impaled By Horns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A python was impaled by the horns of a duiker which it was trying to swallow whole, in an extraordinary sighting witnessed by Christo Burnette.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/latestsightings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Thumbnail-1-2-1.png\" width=\"702\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A duiker\u2019s horns usually protect it while it is still alive. However, in this rare sighting, the horns vindicated the deceased animal, cutting right through the python.<\/p>\n<p>A male duiker\u2019s horns are 10 centimetres long on average, so this was no light injury for the large python. Both horns penetrated right through, in a moment that spectators at the site will never forget.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"773\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uso5FtigKo8\" title=\"Python Tries To Escape Horns Piercing Through Head\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Christo says that while he frequently visits South African game reserves, this was the first time he had ever seen something like this.<\/p>\n<p>According to Christo, he had spotted a duiker lying down just outside his chalet. Wondering what was going on, he went to inspect the unusual sighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A python was impaled by the horns of a duiker which it was trying to swallow whole, in an extraordinary sighting witnessed by Christo Burnette. A duiker\u2019s horns usually protect &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/live105media.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}