An HKFP reader has spotted a large python consuming a barking deer in the forest near Tsuen Wan.

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The clip – shot this week during a hike – shows what appears to be a Burmese python constricting the deer in the nearby forest.

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Burmese pythons can be found across Hong Kong. Whilst smaller ones eat mice, birds and eggs, larger pythons can consume goats, deer and wild boar.

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In a similarly graphic clip shared last September, a python was filmed feasting upon a boar in Sai Kung

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