Brian McDonald
A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said on Saturday.
Farida’s 45-year-old husband and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured about five meters (16 feet).
The mother of four went missing on Thursday night and was unable to return home, forcing a search effort, village chief Suardi Rosi told AFP.
Her husband “found her belongings… which made him suspicious. Residents then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly,” Suardi said.
“They agreed to open the python’s stomach. As soon as they did, Farida’s head was immediately visible.”
Farida was found fully clothed inside the snake.
Other similar incidents in recent years
Reticulated pythons grab their prey with dozens of sharp, curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole. They are common in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia and are known to eat monkeys, pigs and other mammals.
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Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare, but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed whole by pythons.
Last year, residents of Tinanggea district in southeast Sulawesi killed an eight-meter python, which was found strangling and eating one of the village’s farmers.
In 2018, a woman was found dead inside a seven-meter python in the city of Muna in southeast Sulawesi. Authorities said the victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, disappeared while checking his vegetable garden near his village.
In 2017, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found eaten alive by a four-meter python in a palm oil plantation. A six-minute video obtained by CBS News showed residents opening the python’s carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar. Residents said the victim was likely ambushed from behind.
“Reputation for being aggressive”
The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, according to the Natural History Museum in London. Animals of this species are native to South Asia and can reach more than 6 meters in length.
The longest reticulated python ever found in the wild was discovered in 1912, according to the museum, and was nearly 10 meters long — “more than half the length of a bowling alley and makes this snake longer than the height of a giraffe.”
Atlanta Zoowhich houses reticulated pythons, says the snakes “have a reputation for being aggressive.”
Snakes are occasionally kept as pets in the US
Last year, a 4-meter-long reticulated python was found dead on the side of the road in Long Island, which led to a search for its owner.
In 2022, a 16 foot albino reticulated python that glided through a Texas neighborhood for months was finally rescued and returned to its owner.
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