According to their local custom, villagers grill pythons over a fire or fried in a pan, serving with vegetables and rice.
A giant 20-foot female python and a male one were killed by hungry villagers on the Malaysian island of Borneo on a hunting trip last Saturday while the creatures were mating. The villagers have chopped and stir-fried them after finding the pair inside a fallen tree.
Tinsung Ujang, 60, who found the pair, said villagers in the town of Bintulu near the Kelawit River would feast on the meat for days.
"I looked down into the hole in the wood and was surprised to see the female mating with a smaller male snake," he said.
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Several men dragged the animals out from a hollow log before shooting them and moving them on to a van. The snakes required at least four men to haul them.
"We had to split the timber to reach them and it was difficult to remove the snakes because of their size and the position. They were locked together," Tinsung said. "I was even more surprised because I have never seen snakes mating before and never seen a giant python that was more than five metres long like this. The male python was quite small."
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They used a chainsaw to cut through the bark and were excited to see the gigantic reptiles which are considered a wonderful dish in the rural Sarawak region.
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It is kind of honoured when Tinsung returned to the town with the pythons. And according to their local custom, villagers grill pythons over a fire or fried in a pan, serving with vegetables and rice.
"The snake meat was then divided and its share was distributed equally to villagers and nearby farm workers," said Tinsung.
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc says the team’s failure to pit under the first virtual safety car period, which likely cost him a higher place than third, was a “conscious choice,” as the Scuderia was waiting for another chance later in the race.
Leclerc took the lead into turn one, following a lightning start from fourth on the grid, and diced with Mercedes’ George Russell for the lead until the Virtual Safety Car was deployed on lap 12 due to the stopped Red Bull of Isack Hadjar. An opportunity that both Mercedes cars took to pit for a cheap stop.
But Leclerc says Ferrari’s failure to take the stop, too, was not a mistake; instead that Ferrari’s decision was based on the fact the team believed there would be more safety car appearances as the race went on.
“I don’t regret it,” Leclerc said at the official post-race press conference. “It was a wanted choice, a wanted and conscious choice. Looking from (Free Practice 1) to now, there’s been at every session a car that was stopped, at least one car.
“We knew that there were very high chances that this was not going to be the only VSC of the race, and so we thought that it was better for us to maybe wait for another one — and that’s always a gamble. Of course, we didn’t know that this will happen.
“(The) reality is we had another VSC after (it) and one which was particularly well placed. But, unfortunately, on this one, for us, the pit entry was closed and we couldn’t take it, so we were a little bit unlucky on that side, but it was a conscious choice again and I don’t really regret it.”
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Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco reacts at a press conference following his third placed finish at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco holds his trophy after his third place finish at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Scott Barbour)
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco sees his car into pit lane after a pit stop during the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park, in Melbourne, Australia, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (William West/Pool Photo via AP)
