Tears As Giant Python Swallows A Young Man

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Zoologists have for decades doubted the possibility of snakes eating humans. This doubt continued even after a Python swallowed an Indonesian farmer in 2017.

According to these scholars, the human shoulders are not collapsible; hence, near-impossible go into a Python. 

Mary-Ruth Low, Singapore Zoo's research officer and python expert, told the BBC that:

"the restricting factor is human shoulder blades, because they are not collapsible," she said.

But they agree that there is possibility of these fearful giant creatures preying on humans as a result of human encroachment on their habits. These reticulated pythons, the longest living species of snake in the world, are constrictors, meaning they coil around their prey and squeeze them until they're dead in just a couple minutes. The swallowing takes most of the time.

"Because the habitat is destroyed, the snake’s natural food sources are also affected. Thus, the snake went out to the palm oil plantation to seek prey,”Rahmansyah, a lecturer at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, said.

The Guinness World Record notes a reticulated python named Medusa, which lives in Kansas City, Mo., holds the title as the world's largest snake ever in captivity at over 25-feet long. Pythons often eat primates, including monkeys, sometimes orangutans and, seldom, people.

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Big pythons are incredibly powerful animals with huge muscles to both move and eat and constrict," said Stephen Ressel, a professor at the College of Atlantic. "They certainly can pack a huge force as they're constricting."

Scott Backot a vertebrate ecologist at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, spoke to National Geographic in 2015 about how this type of attack kills its victims.

"The heart literally doesn't have enough strength to push against the pressure," he said. The pressure the python puts against it prey as it constricts, usually restrict blood flow in the victims' heart.

The attached video shows a giant python up to 24 feet being sliced open to remove a young man it had swallowed. The live python was caught after it had strayed into the community sluggishly with swollen belly which suggested that it must have eaten something big.