The Fearless Indonesian Girl Plays With A Crocodile and Pythons on The Couch

Yermia Riezky
2 min readAug 10, 2019

The fearless Indonesian girl, Dylan Maharani plays with predatory reptiles on the couch at her house in Tangerang, Indonesia. In the footage, she is playing with a crocodile and pythons.

Maharani video becomes viral when she showed her fearless while playing with the reptiles. He father, Syahrul Effendi said that she has build trust and intimate connection with the reptiles.

They even are inseparable. Several times when Rani separated with the animals, the situation went bad. Rani got sick and the reptiles didn’t want to eat.

When spoke to me, Syahrul said that he still watches over his daughter while playing with the animals. But, he doesn’t feel any worry with that interaction.

Syahrul said: “I understand what the others’ feeling. It is true that I am sometimes scared, but after seeing her interaction with the animal, the scary feeling goes away.

The first time she plays with the wild animal, I always watch and give direction on what to do. But now, she has understood what to do as well what is restricted when with the animal.

To be honest, currently, I don’t have any worry about her when playing with the animal. I don’t know why. I believe in her, so do to the animals.

For example when she handles the big centipedes. They often bite me and those are extremely hurt. But, the centipedes never bite maharani.

Every time she cures the animal, maharani always cries and the animal will follow what she needs them to do.

It is never easy to handle a sprue python. The animal must be stress and doesn’t want to be touched.

When my mother touches the python, it twisted on her arm and that was very tight and hurt. But when maharani takes care of it, the python relaxed and strengthened its body.

The sprue python is aggressive and doesn’t want to be bothered. It will stop eating as its mouth is full of pus.

After 8 months with the crocodile, Rani has a connection with it. I had sent the crocodile to my uncle in Central Java but it got sick, didn’t want to eat and it becomes wilder. Maharani as well gets ill. So we decided to take the crocodile back home. Miraculously they both got better and the crocodile back calm and friendly to my daughter.

Other case is mice. If you put them on the ground, they will run away. But when they are with Rani, they even go closer to her.”

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Yermia Riezky

Media Relation Practitioner, Illustrator, and Photographer in Renewable Energy Industry