A Sri Lankan court has fined a 19-year-old beauty pageant contestant with animal cruelty after she danced on stage with an endangered python, an official said Wednesday. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe woman was fined 50,000 rupees ($181), while the man who loaned the non-venomous, seven-foot (2.1 metre) reptile was fined 100,000 rupees.Both pleaded guilty. "They were fined the maximum allowed under the law during a court hearing late last month," Sanjeeva told AFP. Sri Lanka's High Court sentenced a keeper to 15 years in prison in September for trafficking wild elephants. A tourist guide was fined 200,000 rupees in February 2022 for taunting a wild elephant.