[FavaBeans]

The snake was saying this as it fed.."Num Num Num Num"

[wolfie]

Originally Posted by renfairegeek ↗

I saw this on National Geographic a while back...

both the man AND the snake died. They were found this way... The snake put its jaw the wrong way, the sides of its mouth can't stretch around his shoulders, so it dies - I believe - of suffocation.

Fascinating photo.

Actually the Ranger that found the man talks about the breathing noise the snake is making when he got to the scene. I did not hear how the snake was killed but it was still alive and was still trying to swallow the man. I had always assumed the Ranger killed the snake prior to taking pictures. In the interview it was the Rangers opinion that the snake was a few hours away from swallowing the man.

[MorinoR]

In case no one else has posted this, it's about a guy in Indonesia if I'm not mistaken or somewhere in Southeast Asia that used to take a detour leading up to his house through some small forest, and he got spotted by a giant rock python that did this to him. It was unclear if the snake would have succeeded in killing him or not, it managed to get him by attacking him from behind ambush style. The person that took the picture as well as the one that killed the snake was a police officer that knew the victim personally and was familiar with his routine, and then went to look for him including the detour He knew he took when there was no word from him or no one had seen him in hours or for half a day or so. I remember this story from years ago..(It's not the Akbar story).