How does 7 meter brocade swallow Indonesian woman?

Pythons possess flexible ligaments that connect two jaws, allowing them to widen to swallow huge prey.

A woman in Indonesia was killed and swallowed by 7 meters python, according to the BBC. Although accidents like this rarely happen, this is the second python death caused in Indonesia in just over a year.

Python eating meat in Indonesia.

What happens to the woman?

Wa Tiba, 54, went missing on June 14 while visiting a vegetable garden on Muna Island in Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. Local people search for Tiba on a large scale. Her sandals and machete were found the next day and the giant python with a bulging belly was about 30 meters away.

"People doubt the python swallowed the victim, so they killed it, then carried it out of the garden," said Hamka, the local police chief. " They slit the belly of the python and find the body of the victim inside . " The video recorded by the witness shows Tiba's body still intact.

Pythons are the culprit causing the death of Indonesian women.

How does Python attack people?

The python in Sulawesi is said to be python . They can reach a length of more than 10 meters and are very strong. They attack by sneaking prey, wrapping the body around the prey and tightening it when the victim breathes out. Pythons cause dead prey by suffocation or cardiac arrest in just a few minutes.

Pythons swallow the whole food. Their jaws are connected by very flexible ligaments, allowing them to grab large prey. When eating cannibalism, "the factor that hinders them is the human shoulder bone because the shoulder bone cannot be crumbled," said Mary-Ruth Low, conservation and research officer of the organization Wildlife Reserves Singapore, expert in python and prize. prefer.

Does brocade eat other large animals?

According to Low, pythons almost exclusively eat mammals, although sometimes they also eat reptiles, including crocodiles. Usually, they eat rats and other small animals, but when they reach a certain size, they are almost no longer interested in hunting rats because the calories are too small. They can eat large prey like pigs or even cows.

Sometimes, pythons can choose the wrong prey. In 2005, a Burmese python tried to swallow the whole crocodile body in the state of Florida, USA. It broke the abdomen during the feeding process and both animals died. The guards then found their bodies. But predators can also be quite picky. Without proper prey, they can fast for a long time until a sufficiently large target is found.

The pythons attack others

In March last year, a farmer in Sulawesi who was 7 meters long was swallowed. The 25-year-old man from western Sulawesi was attacked when he was at a palm oil plantation near his village. In another accident that occurred in Sumatra last year, the victim struggled with the 7.8-meter python after being attacked in a plantation and fortunately survived with heavy wounds.

Anthropologist Thomas Headland, who spent decades in Agta, the hunter-gatherer in the Philippines, said more than a quarter of men in the tribe had been attacked by pythons. Although most of them can use machete to protect themselves, sometimes there are adult Agta who are eaten by pythons.

Experts on snakes Nia Kurniawan at Brawijaya University, Indonesia, share pythons that are very sensitive to vibrations, noise and heat from the lamp, so they often avoid residential areas. The garden of the Tiba victim is located at the foot of a cliff with many caves, the residence of pythons, according to the police chief.

Pythons (Python reticulatus)

Pythons are the longest python in the world. The longest individual in captivity in Kansas City, USA, is 7.6 meters long in 2011, according to Guinness World Records.

Pythons often live in dense forests, fear of people and rarely show up. Dozens of other python species are distributed in sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, Australia, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, China, and Southeast Asia.