A python ate a 36-year-old woman in Indonesia
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A woman was found dead inside a python in Indonesia.
Snakes rarely eat humans, but they do This is the second known case in Indonesia in the past month.
According to police, the 36-year-old woman named Syriati went missing on Tuesday after she left home to buy medicine for her son.
Her husband, Adiansa, alerted authorities after finding her slippers and other clothes 500 metres from their home in Siteba village in South Sulawesi province.
The regional police chief said this while talking to BBC News Indonesia The husband found the python alive and beheaded itHe then opened her swollen stomach and saw the remains of his wife.
In early June, a woman was killed by a five-metre-long python in another district in South Sulawesi.
Police had advised residents They will always carry a knife and fear dragon attacks After that incident.
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Ecologists from the South Sulawesi Environmental Institute believe there is a Strong link between deforestation and these types of attacks Of animals.
Its director, Muhammad Al Amin, told BBC News Indonesia that logging for mining and plantations was on the rise in the area.
“The result is that when these animals run out of food, they will hunt in residential areas and even attack humans directly,” he said.
The police chief said residents suspected the python was hiding on the road in search of a wild boar, one of the snake’s prey.
However, It is now rare to see wild boars in the forest,
How can a snake eat a human?
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There are pythons that kill people in Indonesia Reticulated python,
They can reach a length of over 10 metres and are very powerful.
They attack from an ambush, surrounding their prey and holding it tightly until it runs out of breath.
suffocation Or heart attack They happen in just a few minutes.
Pythons swallow their food whole. Their jaws are connected by very flexible ligaments so they can stretch around large prey.
When it comes to eating people, the restrictive factor is “human shoulder blades because they are not bendable,” Mary-Ruth Low, head of conservation and research at the Singapore Wildlife Sanctuary and a wildlife expert, told the BBC in a previous interview. reticulated python.
“Pythons eat almost exclusively mammals,” Low said, although they occasionally eat reptiles, including crocodiles.
They usually eat mice and other small animals, he said, “but once they get to a certain size they don’t seem to have any trouble with mice because The calories aren’t worth it,
“In essence, they may have adapted to the size of their prey,” he explained.
This may also include animals such as pigs or cows.
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