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An Indonesian man left his village Sunday to harvest palm oil, the BBC reported, but after he had been missing for 24 hours, a search party from Salubiro on the island of Sulawesi was sent out.

Soon, they found a reported 23-foot-long reticulated python, the BBC said. The New York Times reported that the shape of shoes were visible below the surface of its belly.

The villagers chased the python and killed it, the Times said. Then video was taken as they slowly sliced open the snake, revealing the body of the missing man, the Times added. He was a 25-year-old named Akbar, the BBC reported.

Villagers heard shouting on the day of the attack, the Times reported, citing a village official named Junaedi who briefed the media Tuesday. But the official said it was assumed the shouting was just someone hunting pigs, and there were no cries for help, the paper said.


Pythons capture their prey using their long teeth and then kill by constricting. Reticulated pythons — which can grow to more than 30 feet in length, LiveScience said — have reportedly been known to attack humans, according to the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

“Pythons are nonvenomous ambush predators,” wildlife biologist Sara E. Viernum told LiveScience. “Some species are capable of swimming and may lie partially submerged in shallow water waiting for prey to visit the water body.”

Wahdi Azmi, director of wildlife studies on the veterinary faculty of Syiah Kuala University in the Banda Aceh Province, told the Times the recent attack was “a rare case of a python eating a person.”

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akira_akuma said:

a acidified corpse flopping out of a snakes cut open carcass?

do i really wanna see that?

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ReposadoXochipilli said:

I love how the solution was to hunt it down and kill it.  Like why? The guy is already dead.

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Asante said:

Thats true with tigers, they know all about that in India.

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A story was discovered by Pune-based author Sureshchandra Warghade when he ran into an old villager in the Bhimashankar forest which lies near Pune. The villager explained to the author how a man-eating tiger terrorized the entire Bhimashakar area during a span of two years in the 1940s. He was a police constable in that area and he had been responsible for dealing with the formalities surrounding the deaths (missing person reports and death certificates) and other jobs such as helping the hunting parties. During this time the tiger supposedly killed more than 100 people, but it was apparently very careful to avoid discovery; only 2 bodies were ever found. Several hunting parties were organized but the only one to succeed was an Ambegaon-based hunter named Ismail. During his first attempt, Ismail had a direct confrontation with the tiger and was almost killed. He later called Kenneth Anderson. They returned and eliminated the man-eater. The tiger predominately killed the villagers who slept outside the huts.

The authenticity of the story told by the villager was confirmed when Warghade examined official reports, including a certificate given by the British authorities for killing the man-eating tiger.

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ReposadoXochipilli said:

I love how the solution was to hunt it down and kill it.  Like why? The guy is already dead.

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BANANA.MAN said:

ReposadoXochipilli said:

I love how the solution was to hunt it down and kill it.  Like why? The guy is already dead.

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Because its a man eater. A family just lost a son/husband/father. We are just going to let the snake hang out around a village with children?

If there is something eating your people you worry about your people. You dont let it slide because the animal was hungry.

If we are going to be like that and just say fuck it let nature do its thing then why are we sitting here in houses on computers? If its immoral to make the wilderness safer for people then why dont we just live outside?

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OhMrJohnson said:

So basically humans can raise hundreds upon hundreds of animals only to be killed in a slaughterhouse and no one bats an eye, but one snake eats one person and all of a sudden everyone loses their minds

#doublestandards

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