4/10/2023 0 Comments Anaconda eating human![]() In general they feast at ground level, being too heavy to reach into trees. Why a cat's whiskers are the bee's kneesĭr Herbert says they are “ambush predators … not hunters” they lie in wait for their meal, and in South East Asia dine on anything from rodents to deer and myriad mammals in between. In this case we’re talking an eight-metre long reticulated python that could weigh well in excess of 100 kilograms, depending on its fat storage (which in pythons can be very large). Anywhere that you have a predator that’s big enough, you have the potential for humans to be their prey.” “There’re fewer and fewer of these poor animals because we have encroached further and further into their habitat. Dr Herbert, who worked in zoos for a decade including six years in Singapore, notes that the continuing creep of humans into the habitat of wild animals is an open invitation for such encounters. In short the why, and particularly the how. Setting aside the grisly YouTube footage, there’s fascination aplenty in the science of this tragedy. This specimen in captivity is eating a chicken. This isn’t anything special or unusual for an animal to do, it was just taking an opportunity.” Reticulated pythons are the world’s longest snakes and one of the heaviest. But it’s equally awful for the antelope to be eaten by the lion. “It’s awful for that person and the people around him. While snakes eating humans is rare, Dr Herbert says it’s also merely an extreme example of nature at work. ![]() Images that can’t be unseen – including a six-minute video of the snake being sliced open to unveil a fully-clothed, very dead human in its stomach – fuel the horror movie hysteria.ĭr Sasha Herbert, who runs the exotic pet unit at the University of Melbourne’s U-Vet Werribee, sees beyond the macabre in the demise of a 25-year-old Sulawesi palm oil plantation worker. The news that a man was swallowed whole by a snake on an Indonesian island leaves more than an uncomfortable lump in the throat. ![]()
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