This is the stomach-churning moment a giant python gets caught swallowing a chicken - then SPITS it out.

The 12ft-long serpents then twists and turns on the wet ground as it suffocates the creature it had snatched from a market stall.

Onlookers film the python swallowing the rooster then spitting it out after becoming unnerved by people watching it and sensing a threat.

The python throws the dead bird onto the ground and gives a glimpse of eats mighty jaws spread wide open.

Onlooker Tan Snr, 33, was among the crowd of people who recorded the revolting moment in Jengka, Malaysia.

He said: ''Pythons can eat things far bigger than a chicken. People were saying that the snake had brought the chicken back out after it sensed danger because it felt it was a dangerous area.''

Tan Snr, who runs a motorcycle repair shop, said that animal rescuers captured the snake and released it into nearby forest.