Snakes Eating People

I'm curious.. has there ever been a confirmed case where a giant snake actually ate a person? The only species that would be capable would be green anacondas, african rocks, burms, and perhaps retics. I was just wondering.

probally not... but it's possible

we have different shoulders(of course) that it would make it alot harder for them to *eat* a human

There was a article on rtb.net about that.An Afrock ate a small child.

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we have different shoulders(of course) that it would make it a lot harder for them to *eat* a human

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Yeah i agree.

But even still, ive seen pictures of african rocks eating antelopes, dont you think one of those guys could hanlde getting me down thier throat ??? I guess im not a very good example though,im only 15, 5'7 140 pounds......

African rocks seem notorious for eating large prey items.. I wonder what the situation was that the kid was eaten. I also wonder if a snake has eaten a full grown person.. eating a child is one thing. That'd be an awful way to go.

The burm at work (also the world's largest snake) ate a 100 pound pig, but still that's a ways away from eating a full grown human.

yeah.. a child would be a victom..but a full grown adult? i don't think so. Almost no prey items of large snakes have the mouth to swollow a full grown human. Maybe if you stood still and shriveled into a ball then but a little pinky mouse on your head then it will eat you. but if you saw it you would run...not be stupid like some animals do.

iguanaking

Yeah, I have read reports of people (Smaller People) being eaten by Green Anacondas. I think the main reason for that is because Annies are territorial and I'm sure if some little native person was to walk through a anacondas forest the annie would prolly eat him/her......

I there is a case actually of a ball python killing a 15 year old boy while he was sleeping. It may have been one of those propaganda papers but i definitly remember reading about it on the internet.

key quote: there is a small change of any snake to eat a full grown human.*most* of the pictures or stories you hear are not true.(unless it is of a small child..in that case it STILL might not be true).Even if they do it is the way of life.things eat over things to live(een if it is a small village child) (joke).

Iguanaking

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Originally Posted by DrEwTiMe

I there is a case actually of a ball python killing a 15 year old boy while he was sleeping. It may have been one of those propaganda papers but i definitly remember reading about it on the internet.

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Uh.. now how does THAT happen? For heaven's sake.. Did the kid fall asleep with it around his neck?

Hmm.. even if an anaconda is territorial, would it really care about a human going into it's territory? Good point about the natives being small though.

Doesn't a snake only constrict to kill prey?

most large snakes do(anacondas,rectics,pythons,etc.)

let's keep talking. wanna see my iguana(just wondering)

hehe don't shoot the messanger LOL i was just telling your guys what i read somewhere. The kid was definitly killed but the weird thing was they said he was bitten on the leg or arm so it didnt really make sense as to how the python could kill it. Thats why i gave the possibility of it being faulse.

A ball python! NO WAY! THEY ARE WAY TOO SMALL TO EAT A 15 YEAR OLD ( EVEN IF HE/SHE WAS A MIDGET!)

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Originally Posted by iguanaking

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That's what the edit button is for. ;)

Do you mean only constrict to kill prey, as in only things it plans on eating?

A POSSIBLIY? IT COULD NEVER HAPPEN. WHAT YOU READ WAS DEFINATLY NOT TRUE

Yeah, But with wild anacondas some have never seen humans and just look at them as Food or a threat. I mean if you were a big green anaconda and a little native person walks through where you live and you were hungry wouldnt you eat him/her?

NO..IT ALSO CONSTRICTS TREES, GRASS ,AND WATER.

i don't think that they snake actually ate the kid(swallowed it) but it definitly sid that the kid was killed by it. It may be complete bullsh** but i was just sharing something i herd

i would eat him..lol j/k

how would it kill it? ball pythons are NOT poisonus

anyone wanna see my iguana?

My boa has bit and constricted around my arm before and I highly doubt that it was planning on eating me.
Then there was another case where one of my corns swallowed my whole finger (that was sorta freaky) but I still doubt that he thought that he was going to eat me

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Originally Posted by Andrew00

Do you mean only constrict to kill prey, as in only things it plans on eating?

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Yes.. that's what I mean.

I'm sure your boa was fully intending to eat your ARM (which was probably rodent scented?).. not being smart enough to realise it was connected to you. ;)

Your corn swallowed your whole finger? That conjures an interesting picture.

what reptiles do you all have...and agian, anyone wanna see my iguana?

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Originally Posted by iguanaking

how would it kill it? ball pythons are NOT poisonus

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They have amazing strength. If one were to sit there and let a full grown BP constrict your neck, it could cut off your air supply.

If you have pics of your iguana, you can start a new thread and post them there.

yeah...but you wouldn't let it do it to you..trust me i've had that happen to me, and you do have the strength to get it off(or you can LET it cut your air supply off)

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Originally Posted by iguanaking

yeah...but you wouldn't let it do it to you..trust me i've had that happen to me, and you do have the strength to get it off(or you can LET it cut your air supply off)

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Yes of course.. but if this kid was REALLY sleeping (ie dead to the world or perhaps comatose) it IS possible. Highly doubtful, but possible.

-also, if he was a weak person, he could possibly not have the strength to pull a BP off. A large female BP is capable of reaching 6', that is a formidable amount of strength when you are a child.

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index...336&user=73610

You know iguanaking, its not all that polite to hijack a thread about snakes. Lets try to keep things on topic huh? We do have an iguana forum.

so he was still alsleep when a ball python was contricting him around his neck..if you think so you need to read about pythons and if you would let a python kill you while sleeping(you would wake up)!

come on!
peace!

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.

Hey guys, i think he made a mistake, i read a story of a 15 year old kid getting killed by his burm while he was laying in bed, it bit his foot just like in his story.

Only it wasnt a BALL python, it was a BURMESE python

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Originally Posted by iguanaking

so he was still alsleep when a ball python was contricting him around his neck..if you think so you need to read about pythons and if you would let a python kill you while sleeping(you would wake up)!

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I'm sure he woke up (if he didn't, then he's got no business being alone with any snake..), but perhaps it was too late at that point.

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Originally Posted by Brandon.O

Hey guys, i think he made a mistake, i read a story of a 15 year old kid getting killed by his burm while he was laying in bed, it bit his foot just like in his story.

Only it wasnt a BALL python, it was a BURMESE python

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Silly.. well that makes sense. I heard that story too. It was a free range (why?!) burm, the kid was sleeping and it attacked him at night.. the thing probably covered his mouth in constricting so no one would hear him and help him.

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

lol yeah, i looked up Burmese pythons and all those stories pop up, you know, the ones that say.......If your thinking about purchasing a burmese python......DONT !!! And then they tell you about how people have been killed by them.

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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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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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.