Quantcast

Stretch mark! Beloved python really extends herself

Stretch mark! Beloved python really extends herself
The Brooklyn Paper / Tom Callan

Fantasia, the beloved albino Burmese python at the Children’s Museum, celebrated her 15th birthday this weekend — and was promptly rolled out to her full length for the first time in years.

A team of workers stretched the 260-pound beast to 19 feet, 6 3/4 inches on Saturday morning, several feet longer than the last time she was measured when the museum acquired her nine years ago.

The Brooklyn Paper / Emily True

Later, she celebrated her birthday in Fantasia fashion: devouring a whole rabbit in one extended gulp.

Rabbit test: Fantasia celebrated her 15th birthday at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum over the weekend — and downed a rabbit, as these exciting photos show.
The Brooklyn Paper / Emily True