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Death pain

“A Life in a painful death" . Python or Vipor? This is a common question since the viper has spots that look nearly same as the python. And lot of people identify all snakes as deadly or as dangerous. I found this python in Kataragama, Sri lanka (At my hometown ). Some one has hit this python with a sharp cutting tool/ equipment. When I found, it was suffering of a painful death feeling. See it’s eye. You can understand it. Please allow them to live because this is the their own home and people are ruling and destroying it day by day. Captured this about three years ago. Couldn’t fix my mind to post it. But decided to share it now, to save at least one innocent from the death. . Nikon D750, Nikkor 70-300 f4.5-5.6

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 11.2017
Date Uploaded: 09.2021
Photo Location: Kataragama, Sri Lanka
Camera: NIKON D750
Copyright: © Damith Osuranga Danthanarayana