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Man-Eating Snakes II
Not for the Squeamish – Some of the Pictures are Very Graphic!
Man-Eating Snakes I
Man-Eating Crocodilians
The
four pictures below allegedly document a recent incident of a snake eating a
person. The accompanying stories vary
as to victim (local child, camper, or oil rig crew member) and location (South
America with the snake an anaconda, Borneo, and Singapore). The snake is a reticulated python.
The
two pictures below obviously are of poorer quality and detail than the ones
above. The pictures above also seem to
have been in circulation several years before the ones below
appeared. The lump appears to be of a
stocky animal such as a pig rather than of a person. The person’s body has very little mucus on it for having been
inside a snake. Those who keep snakes
well know how slimy food items get, especially when a snake regurgitates. It’s difficult to ascertain where his arms
are; one of them should be lying right along his side, since they would have to
fold that way during the snake’s feeding.
His arms may be extending up into the snake to open a path for his head
and chest. The upper torso appears to
be within a bag inside the snake. The
python’s stomach and/or intestine also seem to have disappeared. Most herpers suspect that these were staged
photographs, though I have to give the man credit for crawling that far into
the snake. In any event, no news
service has ever carried a story relating to these photographs … and it would
have made a great story. Some
Internet sites with information on these pictures are:
http://www.arachnophiliac.com/burrow/oddities_man_eating_snakes.htm
and
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/animals/anaconda.htm
The
picture below was taken in Malaysia and printed in a local magazine there. The reticulated python could not completely
eat the person. An adult human’s
shoulders present a real obstacle to the biggest snake. Whether the person already was dead or was
killed by the snake remains unknown.
BON
APPETIT!