Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1896 — What a Boa Constrictor Can Do. [ARTICLE]

What a Boa Constrictor Can Do.

The boa constrictor is capable of swallowing deer, calves or men whole. It first catches its prey by hanging from the branch of a tree near tho place where the animals are npeustomed to go to water, and since it has no poisonoua fangs it kills its prey by pressure.