2024-07-04 23:38:00
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A woman was found dead inside a python in Indonesia. Snakes rarely eat people, but this one It is the second known case in the last month in Indonesia.
The 36-year-old woman, named Syriati, disappeared on Tuesday after leaving her home to buy medicine for her son, according to police. Her husband, Adiansa, informed authorities after she found slippers and other clothes 500 meters from his home in Siteba village, South Sulawesi Province.
Speaking to BBC News Indonesia, the regional police chief said that The husband found the live python and cut off its headthen he opened her swollen belly and saw the remains of his wife.
In early June, a woman was killed by a five meter long python in another area of South Sulawesi. The police informed residents They will always carry a knife and anticipate python attacks after that incident.
Ecologists from the South Sulawesi Environmental Institute believe that a strong correlation between deforestation and these types of attacks the animals. Its director, Muhammad Al Amin, told BBC News Indonesia that felling of trees for mining and plantations is increasing in the region.
“The consequence is that when these animals run out of food, they will hunt in residential areas and even directly attack people,” he said.
The police chief said that residents suspect that the python was lurking on the road looking for a wild boar, one of the snakes’ prey. But, now you rarely see a wild boar in the forest.
It is the pythons that kill people in Indonesia reticulated pythons. They can reach distances of more than ten meters and are very powerful. They attack in ambush, covering their prey and pressing it tightly until the victim emerges.
The IS asthma or the heart attack They happen in a few minutes. Pythons swallow their food whole. Their jaws are connected by very flexible ligaments so they can stretch around large prey.
In terms of eating humans, the limiting factors are “human shoulder blades because they don’t fold,” Mary-Ruth Low, head of conservation and research at the Singapore Wildlife Reserves and a wildlife expert, told the BBC in a previous interview . reticulated pythons.
“Pythons feed almost exclusively on mammals,” Low said, although they do occasionally eat reptiles, including crocodiles. They usually eat rats and other small animals, he said, “but when they get to a certain size it’s almost like they don’t bother rats anymore because the calories are not worth it“.
“Basically, they can adapt to the size of their prey,” he explained. This can include animals such as pigs or even cows.
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