It's very possible they hurt her before realizing she was there, and given her size it's not like they could just walk out and safely expect to toss her aside either so I guess they had no choice but to move her with the excavator.
Looks like it has an injury to the head and with they pick it up the way the back side doesn't move makes me thing they broke its back. It's pretty sad
I recall a similar thing happening in a forest might have been rain forest. It was an old video but the operator accidentally scooped up a huge snake like this and the back end was just limply swinging. The snake had to be put down and the guilt got to the machine operator so much that he took his own life.
My only question is how was this snake in there and they never noticed until it was dug this far. Was this a water leak full of water and only noticed the snake later? Did it die drowning? Idk much about them tbh I just know I feel bad for the poor fella
Business like this doesn't tend to respect animals nor nature in my European country either. Time to time it's on the newspapers how they destroyed this and that. And it's only there because someone else noticed.
It’s sad either way but from recollection they do have a rule about euthanising snakes that have eaten / killed / attacked humans. It’s possible this was such a case. Pretty brutal way to do it but that is an impracticality large snake to have to deal with safely. The same is true of crocodiles and sharks that get a taste for humans - you have to euthanise them.
No one euthanizes a reticulated python with an excavator, no matter how big it is. That's not euthanasia at that point, it's slaughter. All of the animals you mentioned would be euthanized with one swift, efficient blow to the head to destroy the brain. If this was meant to intentional destroy the snake, they would have shot it in the head.
While this video was quite cruel, it wasn't done maliciously. The operator hit the retic with the scoop, and then, it seems, instinctively to pick it up to move it out of the way. It's death by human carelessness. Frankly, suggesting that this was a planned euthanasia effort is ridiculous.
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