Many people are afraid the snakes . Some represent a real danger because of their poison, but in most cases it is about a phobia called ophidhophobia . If you visit the zoo's Terrarium, you may have the chance to see many snakes and even offer to touch or place on your shoulders, around your neck, some large size. In principle this action is not dangerous, but surely at that time, when you have explained how they eat, you have asked: Can a python swallow a human being? Accompany us to know the case that occurred in Sulawesi, Indonesia .
A python is a constrictor snake that lives in the subtropical zones of Africa and Asia mainly. They can measure up to eight meters and attack their prey ambushing. They are bitten and when they are caught they wrap their body around the victim. They squeeze on the area of the ribs and lungs of their prey until they suffocate it. Then, once dead, they gobble it up and digest it for several days. Humans, usually, are not within the preferred size of python prey that is much smaller, but do you think that Can a python swallow an adult person?
Can a python swallow a human being?
The case we want to relate to you happened recently, in June 2018, and it is an affirmative answer to the question of whether can a python swallow a human being . Yes, it can.
On June 15, 2018, as reported by the Jakarta Post On the last night of Ramadan, a neighbor of Muna in southeastern Sulawesi went out to watch her fields. She was worried because the boars had eaten part of their crops. Their lands were less than 1 km. from his house and headed for it with a flashlight and a machete. The woman, 54 years old and named Wa Tiba, did not return home and at 6 in the morning the next day, her family went to the field, where they only found a sneaker, a flashlight and a machete.
They alerted their neighbors and the police. A group of volunteers found not far from the plantation a snake python about eight meters with a very swollen belly. Fearing the worst, they killed the python and opened it. Inside they found Wa Tiba's corpse with his clothes intact and from his position they discovered that he had swallowed it starting at the head. Really scary!
It is not the only case that serves to answer affirmatively to can a python swallow a human being . In some places of Africa like Cameroon, to hunt pythons they use a singular system. The hunter allows the python to approach his leg and gobble it up, when it is in that process "pull the reptile, bring it to the surface and then kill it".
Did you know that yes that a python can swallow a human being ? Do you know other cases similar to the unfortunate neighbor of Sulawesi, in Indonesia? If you want to meet other dangerous animals, we invite you to read the post: These are the 10 most dangerous animals in the world .