A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.
The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).
The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.
I have spent a disturbing amount of time trying to decide if it was necessary to clarify that she was found dead inside the python. I believe that, yes, it was. Make of that what you will.
It’d be wild if they found her still alive in there.
Don’t the crush and kill the pray before swallowing?
To my knowledge: they constrict, which could theoretically result in crushing, but typically the prey dies of suffocation or lack of circulation.
I was also under the impression that they weren’t able to eat humans because our shoulders are so much wider than our heads, but that’s clearly wrong so take that with salt.
Yes. I think you could say that that being found inside a python pretty much implies being found dead. (There is this one guy, though, but he failed to get himself eaten.)
However, I think it’s just not sufficiently obvious to most people.