Man claims hes going to wear "snake proof" suit to be swallowed by anaconda

Has anyone heard of this? I'm disgusted. It has got to be a joke.

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and...go-belly-beast

I really REALLLY reeeeealllllllllly hope it's a hoax. Because that's simply moronic.

I saw the commercial for it on the Discovery Channel. I think he's actually gonna do it. They also said in the commercial that anacondas grow up to 30 feet.

This is stupid. The man claims to care about the amazon but is willing to preform this "stunt" knowing there is a chance of the animal could be killed. This guy is a joke, I hope it crushes him and his "snake proof suit!"

There are some problems with this:

-The possibility of getting a snake large enough to even be able to eat him. The longest recorded was a retic measuring 25ft and some inches, there has never been any reliable sightings of a snake 30ft. Just word of mouth, and people are terrible at guessing length just by looking at a snake. Several zoos have had a bounty for a snake this large up for decades with no one claiming the reward. There's a whole thread on this on another forum. I can try to dig it up again and PM it to anyone interested, or I can publicly post if that's allowed. Also, even a 25ft snake is not large enough to swallow the "average" full grown human, otherwise we should have been able to get documentation beyond staged photographs and stories by now. A small person, or child/infant? Likely, but not an adult.

-How does he expect to have the snake swallow him while he's alive? This is a constrictor, not a garter snake.

-Why is he willing to go through the pain and damage of the bite and constriction?

This is assuming the snake is even alive, though. It's my honest opinion that none of this can be carried out unless the snake in question is already dead. This is just another case of sensationalism for views and it's going to end up negatively impacting our hobby.

This seems like animal abuse to me. :mad:

I saw this on the Discover Channel as well. Makes me not want to watch that station anymore - this is the most moronic thing I've ever heard of, and cruel to boot. What do we learn from this?

When I was at Tinley last month I went to Nigel Marvin's conference on the deadliest snakes he said something that really stuck with me:

"The Animal Planet and Discovery Channel of today is more worried about demon cats and cute puppies instead of conservation." Or something quite similar.

Anyway I can honestly say that this is 100% true. How does being "eaten" by an Anaconda help with the conservation of the animal? Or the rights of those who keep giant snakes? Its going to induce even more fear into the hobby then there already is.

I hope his "snake proof suit" fails...

I saw a commercial for it last night and kinda chuckled! [emoji23]


Josh

Here is a link to a petition, as well as a number to call Discovery Channel directly if you want to voice your opinion on this.

https://www.change.org/p/discovery-c...overy-channel#