Show A great swallower in the tha zoological gardens at Breslau Braslau recently a south american boa constrictor st at contended for a rabbit with a large python from west africa it did not succeed however the python being the stronger of the two and it withdrew about two hours later the keeper found the same snakes f fighting ahti ng for another rabbit As tho the keeper supposed that the boa which was the weaker of the two would again give up ite ita prey pray he be left them to thease themselves yes and went home the next morning he was horror stricken to find that the boa had not let go its hold and had been swallowed by the python as a pendant to the rabbit the boa was nearly seven feet long arid and correspondingly thick the python had already swallowed one rabbit before the one which proved fatal to the boa its circumference throughout its length was from twenty three to twenty eight inches and its sidn was expanded to double its size the supposition that the snake might perhaps not be able to digest the boa proved false digestion only proceeded somewhat more slowly than usual |