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Wildlife
The booming business of snakeskin
4 February 2019
News
Deep in the Indonesian jungle, reticulated pythons are being slaughtered by the thousands.
Not quickly, or humanely — but tantalisingly, agonisingly and monstrously slowly.
First, they are smashed on the head with a mallet — not hard enough to kill them, just to stun them, which makes it possible to wrench their jaws open and shove a hosepipe down their throats.
Their bodies are then filled with water and secured with elastic bands at both ends.
This bloats them like balloons and makes it easier — once their heads are nailed to a meat hook and a couple of incisions have been made — to skin them with a few hard yanks, before their still-live bodies are thrown onto a pile.
But this doesn't kill them.
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