A woman was found dead inside a python in Indonesia.
Snakes rarely eat humans, but this one This is the second known case in the last month in Indonesia.
The 36-year-old woman, named Siriati, disappeared on Tuesday after leaving her home to buy medicine for her son, according to police.
Her husband, Adiansa, alerted authorities after finding her sneakers and other clothes 500 metres from their home in Siteba village in South Sulawesi province.
Speaking to BBC News Indonesia, the regional police chief said: The husband found the python alive and cut off its head.then he opened her swollen belly and saw the remains of his wife.
In early June, a woman was eaten to death by a five-metre-long python in another district of South Sulawesi.
Police had advised residents to They will always carry a knife and anticipate python attacks after that incident.
Environmentalists from the South Sulawesi Environmental Institute believe that there is a strong correlation between deforestation and this type of attack of animals.
Its director, Muhammad Al Amin, told BBC News Indonesia that tree felling for mining and plantations in the region was increasing.
“The consequence is that When these animals run out of food, they will hunt in residential areas. and will even attack humans directly,” he noted.
The police chief said residents suspect the python was lurking on the road in search of wild boars, one of the snakes’ prey. However, it is now rare to see wild boars in the forest.
How can a snake eat a human?
The pythons that kill people in Indonesia are reticulated pythons. They can reach lengths of more than 10 meters and are very powerful..
They attack from an ambush, wrapping their prey around it and squeezing it tightly until the victim exhales. Asphyxiation or cardiac arrest occurs within minutes.
Pythons swallow their food wholeTheir jaws are connected by very flexible ligaments so they can stretch around large prey.
When it comes to eating people, the limiting factors are “human shoulder blades because they are not collapsible,” Mary-Ruth Low, head of conservation and research at Singapore Wildlife Reserves and an expert on reticulated pythons, told the BBC in a previous interview.
“Pythons feed almost exclusively on mammals,” Low said, although They occasionally eat reptiles, including crocodiles..
They normally eat rats and other small animals, he said, “but once they get to a certain size it’s almost like they don’t bother with the rats anymore because the calories aren’t worth it.”
“They can basically adapt to the size of their prey,” he explained. This can include animals such as pigs or even cows.
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