Snakes Eating People

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Originally Posted by MisterPodo

Who cares if humans were killed by snakes specially if it wasnt a HOT and most of dont keep hots and we also keep are snakes locked up dont we? I mean besides the times we hold them. So none of us should be sleeping while one of are snakes are out! Also I put my animals in my sig! Thats just my reps and Ts I have mammals

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I'm not worried about being eaten by my snakes. :) I just want to know how to truthfully answer all the random people that come where I work and ask me why I'm not afraid the burm I'm holding is going to eat me. I want to learn more about the nature of snakes and the reasons for what they do. Besides, it's facinating to me.. that's why I'm here anyway.

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Originally Posted by led4urhead

MisterPodo, you need to check out this post in reference to your sig. Pay close attention to number 5.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/index.ph...ewtopic&t=6368

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Uh-oh I better fix mine too.

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Originally Posted by MisterPodo

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Cute iggy. I don't think I'd be able to provide proper care for one. They get so big, and can turn mean I hear.. good luck with him.

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My Green is the biggest baby in the world it loves to be rubbed. But I do agree that they need a huge cage mine is full grown and in is in a 6'H-4'W-4'D cage.

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Iggys scare me. They're cool, but they're scary. I hear too many stories of tail whipping, biting, scratching lizards. I prefer monitors as far as big lizards go.

But not to be off topic. heh..

Ummm I am going to open a new thread!

I have seen a couple of different shows on National Geographic, Discovery, Animal Planet....whatever....that were doing episodes on South America. In each of these shows they end up out in the middle of the jungle in some remote villages. The villagers all say they have lost fellow villagers to the big snakes. With some saying that yes indeed the snake did eat the person.

Just because it has not been documented does not mean that those villagers living amonst those big boys are wrong.... or are just telling a fish story. I believe them. I think a person of small physical stature could easily become a big snakes dinner living out there like they do.

So yeah, I am quite confident that it is possible. As a matter of fact, I got at least 43 cents in loose change sitting here on my desk that I am willing to wager on it. Anybody want any of that action???

Ok.. so I'm thinking out loud here (that could be dangerous.. ;) )

Plenty of (responsible) people keep large burms/retics/condas etc.. what stops those big snakes from eating their owners? I thought that humans just don't smell like food to a snake, but if wild ones eat humans, then that wouldn't be true.

Anyone have any insight here?

I believe (and I could be wrong) that CB anacondas dont have that territorial instinct like wild ones do I mean I am sure they are still territorial but I am also sure they get used to people being around them unlike CB ones.

I mean this is just my 2 cents

IDK for sure. But those people in the amazon aren't exactly a reliable source. They are not exactly living in the same world we are in. And when they live in the amazon, they usually hav ethe instincts and the knowledge to not go near or ever get near any large snake. I can't see how people could know for sure. Either they witnessed it, but would probably come to their companions help before it was all over, and before the snake started downing him, so they woudn't know if the sanek was going to eat them, or a villager just went missing and they assumed it was a snake. I suppose someone could get killed, but probably y the mistake fo the snake. And if you think about it, those amazonians down their dont exactly have a lot to offer to the snakes, not much meat on their bones. And great point shelby!

-Just my thoughts...

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Originally Posted by MisterPodo

I believe (and I could be wrong) that CB anacondas dont have that territorial instinct like wild ones do I mean I am sure they are still territorial but I am also sure they get used to people being around them unlike CB ones.

I mean this is just my 2 cents

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Hmm.. well we have a WC BIG conda at work, and far as I know she hasn't tried to eat anyone.

Territorial instinct is one thing.. that wouldn't make the snake want to eat you, it'd make the snake want to get rid of you. I'm asking if big snakes consider people as a food source. What identifies food to a snake? Smell primarily? If it wasn't smell.. then there'd be no market for scents for pink mice to get stubborn snakes to start feeding. WC BPs won't eat rats because they don't smell like food to them.

If people smell like food to a big snake, why don't they eat their owners in captivity?

If people don't smell like food, why would a snake ever attempt to eat a human (excluding SFEs here)

I think a hungry wild animal will eat anything it possibly can. Human or not. You can't really compare animals in a captive controlled environment with animals in the wild. They are two different worlds completely. Just like lions at the circus and lions on the open plains of Africa. At the circus we feed them, house them, get them to do neat tricks for us. On the open plains of Africa they would have no problems with eating us if they were hungry.

Again, scent in captivity is much different than out in the jungle. We smell much different than what we have trained them to eat in captivity. If you grew up in a village in the remote jungle, your scent would be much different than folks here in America. You would be smelling a lot more....earthy. lol

I am not saying that humans are a "big snakes" food of choice, but if hungry it will eat you. Just like the lions would.

Well, since the topic of this thread is Snakes eating people, and a picture is worth a thousand words....Check this out. If your squeamish...then dont check it out.

www.tongs.com

Click on Images...then on snake bite wounds. Scroll down to the 4th row of pictures and look at the first and second pic.

Yes...snakes can eat full grown people.