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As the kids jumped and giggled, one of the boys said it was a black-headed python. Children in Woorabinda use a snake as a skipping rope. It is unclear whether the python was already dead when the ...

In an unsettling turn of events, a video showing children playing with a lifeless snake as a skipping rope has gone viral, raising serious concerns about animal welfare and human behaviour.

“About 75 percent of the kids say, ‘Let me hold it and pet it’ and the other 25 percent do not want to be around the snakes. “Usually by the end of the party, we’ve gotten them to pet a ...

A viral video showed children in Queensland using a dead snake as a skipping rope. Authorities launched an investigation into the incident.

dead snake as others jump over it. “Show me that, show me what it is,” the woman in the video says. As the kids jumped and giggled, one of the boys said it was a black-headed python.