A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.
The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).
The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Fucking terrifying.
There would be a solid minute where you’d be fully aware that you have been consumed by a giant snake.
Pythons normally constrict their prey before consuming it.
More likely that the giant snake is in a coil around you and with every breath you exhale, you realize that you can’t inhale back in. This goes on until you lose consciousness due to asphyxiation. You won’t be awake or perhaps even alive by the time the snake decides to start swallowing you.
Snakes don’t suffocate prey by stopping their breathing, they stop the blood flow to the brain. A retic can kill a person without even trying, that much muscle around your neck might leave you a few seconds before you’re unconscious.
16 foot. With that many feet, it’s not a snake but a centipede imo.
Welp, guess I’ll add Indonesia to my list of countries I’d prefer not to
visitdie in.I’m interested in the list of countries you WOULD prefer to die in
The one I was born in and currently live in. I’m too lazy to die anywhere else.
So, I guess the USA it is…
I’ve got some bad news for you mate…
The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, according to London’s Natural History Museum. They are native to Southern Asia and can grow to be more than 20 feet long.
The longest reticulated python ever found in the wild was discovered in 1912, according to the museum, and was measured to be nearly 33 feet long – “more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall.”
Zoo Atlanta, which houses reticulated pythons, says the snakes “have a reputation for being aggressive.”
The snakes are occasionally kept as pets in the U.S.
Last year, a 14-foot-long reticulated python was found dead on side of the road on Long Island, prompting a search for its owner.
In 2022, a 16-foot albino reticulated python that slithered through a Texas neighborhood for months was finally rescued and returned to its owner.
Cool. New fear unlocked.
And there I thought the toilet python was bad.
I have spent a disturbing amount of time trying to decide if it was necessary to clarify that she was found dead inside the python. I believe that, yes, it was. Make of that what you will.
Don’t the crush and kill the pray before swallowing?
To my knowledge: they constrict, which could theoretically result in crushing, but typically the prey dies of suffocation or lack of circulation.
I was also under the impression that they weren’t able to eat humans because our shoulders are so much wider than our heads, but that’s clearly wrong so take that with salt.
Yes. I think you could say that that being found inside a python pretty much implies being found dead. (There is this one guy, though, but he failed to get himself eaten.)
However, I think it’s just not sufficiently obvious to most people.
Tarzan movies didn’t lie to me after all!
No kidding! Consequently, I have decided to redouble my efforts to avoid quicksand
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.
The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).
The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Last year, residents in Southeast Sulawesi’s Tinanggea district killed an eight-meter python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.
A six-minute video obtained by CBS News showed villagers slicing open the python’s carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar.
The longest reticulated python ever found in the wild was discovered in 1912, according to the museum, and was measured to be nearly 33 feet long – “more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall.”
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2 things:
“more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall.”
Do Americans really consider this helpful information?
marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.
The Wikipedia page on reticulated pythons needs to be updated.
