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Jul 16, 2018 17:27:18   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
News of a pickup-truck-size reticulated python k*****g and swallowing a woman whole in central Indonesia, eating even her clothes, has made headlines around the world. But how often do these snakes eat people?

Very infrequently, it turns out.

"In natural environments, it's incredibly rare," said David Penning, an assistant professor of biology at Missouri Southern State University. "It's probably more rare than snake injuries among people who have big pythons and boas and don't take the proper safety precautions." [Photos: This Python Chowed Down on 3 Deer]

However, these fatal attacks are not unheard of, and instances of wild, giant snakes eyeing people as potential prey may increase as humans clear more wildlife habitats to create farmland and homes, Penning told Live Science.

Encounters with wild snakes are more common among indigenous people who live in the rainforest alongside the snakes than they are among people who live in developed areas. In a 2011 study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined interviews with 120 Philippine Agta Negritos conducted in 1976, and found that 15 of the 58 (26 percent) adult men and 1 of the 62 (2 percent) Agta women had survived an attack by a reticulated python. Moreover, six people died from python attacks there between 1934 and 1973, according to information gleaned from the interviews, the researchers found.

In the recent Indonesian case, 54-year-old Wa Tiba went out Thursday night (June 14) with a flashlight to check on her vegetable garden, which is located in a rocky area on Muna island covered in caves and cliffs thought to be swarming with snakes, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Tiba went because wild boars had been raiding her corn and she wanted to stop them, according to the South China Morning Post. But it was there that the 23-foot-long (7 meters) python attacked and swallowed her whole.

Her family and others villagers went looking for her on Friday (June 15) but found just her belongings, including her sandals and machete, the village chief, Faris (who goes by a single name), told the AP. About 165 feet (50 m) from these belongings, the search party found a snake with a bloated body. They promptly k**led the snake and carried it back to the village.

"When they cut open the snake's belly, they found Tiba's body still intact with all her clothes," Faris told the AP. "She was swallowed first from her head."

If the search party hadn't found the python that ate her, there would have been little evidence of the attack, said Penning, who wasn't involved with the woman's case. It's possible that the snake could have passed her clothes (depending on what they were made of), but snakes can digest an entire body, even bone, he said.

"Snakes have very unique digestive systems, which can expand a lot of energy to increase their digestive capacity," Penning said. "They digest everything."

Credit: David Penning
Ambush h****rs
Reticulated pythons hunt by picking an area that smells like their prey, Penning said. Then, the ambush h****rs wait for prey to come by, before striking with their curved teeth and wrapping their strong bodies around the victim, which can lead to cardiac arrest and death. (Contrary to popular belief, pythons don't suffocate prey to death, Live Science previously reported.)

However, the next part, swallowing the prey whole, is easier with the snake's typical prey — including rodents, deer, wild pigs and even monkeys — than with humans, said Brad Moon, a professor of biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. That's because it's easy for a snake to expand its jaws to swallow an animal that's small or that gradually increases in size from head to rump. In contrast, a human's square-shaped shoulders are "probably hard for a snake to get their mouth around," Moon told Live Science.

Given this shoulder impediment, as well as the substantial size of some humans, pythons generally don't attack people. But if the person is small and the python is big — perhaps more than 20 feet (6 m) long —it's possible that a python could first k**l and then eat a person, Moon said.

Moon noted that there are invasive Burmese pythons (Burmese pythons) that have become established in Florida over the past few decades, but these snakes are usually smaller than reticulated pythons (Python reticulatus). "Burmese pythons have been measured up to 19 feet [5.8 m] long, although individuals over about 15 feet [4.6 m] are rare," Moon said.

But even though Burmese pythons aren't as large, it's still important to take precautions while trekking in python territory — for instance, by keeping an eye on small pets and children, as well as watching where you step, Moon said. After all, this is Indonesia's second python attack in just over a year; last March, a python swallowed a 25-year-old man in West Sulawesi province, the AP reported.

Original article on Live Science.

I have always heard that even a huge snake couldn't get his jaws around a humans shoulder
guess that ain't so
you folks in Florida be careful



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Jul 17, 2018 09:40:39   #
bahmer
 
badbobby wrote:
News of a pickup-truck-size reticulated python k*****g and swallowing a woman whole in central Indonesia, eating even her clothes, has made headlines around the world. But how often do these snakes eat people?

Very infrequently, it turns out.

"In natural environments, it's incredibly rare," said David Penning, an assistant professor of biology at Missouri Southern State University. "It's probably more rare than snake injuries among people who have big pythons and boas and don't take the proper safety precautions." [Photos: This Python Chowed Down on 3 Deer]

However, these fatal attacks are not unheard of, and instances of wild, giant snakes eyeing people as potential prey may increase as humans clear more wildlife habitats to create farmland and homes, Penning told Live Science.

Encounters with wild snakes are more common among indigenous people who live in the rainforest alongside the snakes than they are among people who live in developed areas. In a 2011 study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined interviews with 120 Philippine Agta Negritos conducted in 1976, and found that 15 of the 58 (26 percent) adult men and 1 of the 62 (2 percent) Agta women had survived an attack by a reticulated python. Moreover, six people died from python attacks there between 1934 and 1973, according to information gleaned from the interviews, the researchers found.

In the recent Indonesian case, 54-year-old Wa Tiba went out Thursday night (June 14) with a flashlight to check on her vegetable garden, which is located in a rocky area on Muna island covered in caves and cliffs thought to be swarming with snakes, according to the Associated Press (AP).

Tiba went because wild boars had been raiding her corn and she wanted to stop them, according to the South China Morning Post. But it was there that the 23-foot-long (7 meters) python attacked and swallowed her whole.

Her family and others villagers went looking for her on Friday (June 15) but found just her belongings, including her sandals and machete, the village chief, Faris (who goes by a single name), told the AP. About 165 feet (50 m) from these belongings, the search party found a snake with a bloated body. They promptly k**led the snake and carried it back to the village.

"When they cut open the snake's belly, they found Tiba's body still intact with all her clothes," Faris told the AP. "She was swallowed first from her head."

If the search party hadn't found the python that ate her, there would have been little evidence of the attack, said Penning, who wasn't involved with the woman's case. It's possible that the snake could have passed her clothes (depending on what they were made of), but snakes can digest an entire body, even bone, he said.

"Snakes have very unique digestive systems, which can expand a lot of energy to increase their digestive capacity," Penning said. "They digest everything."

Credit: David Penning
Ambush h****rs
Reticulated pythons hunt by picking an area that smells like their prey, Penning said. Then, the ambush h****rs wait for prey to come by, before striking with their curved teeth and wrapping their strong bodies around the victim, which can lead to cardiac arrest and death. (Contrary to popular belief, pythons don't suffocate prey to death, Live Science previously reported.)

However, the next part, swallowing the prey whole, is easier with the snake's typical prey — including rodents, deer, wild pigs and even monkeys — than with humans, said Brad Moon, a professor of biology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. That's because it's easy for a snake to expand its jaws to swallow an animal that's small or that gradually increases in size from head to rump. In contrast, a human's square-shaped shoulders are "probably hard for a snake to get their mouth around," Moon told Live Science.

Given this shoulder impediment, as well as the substantial size of some humans, pythons generally don't attack people. But if the person is small and the python is big — perhaps more than 20 feet (6 m) long —it's possible that a python could first k**l and then eat a person, Moon said.

Moon noted that there are invasive Burmese pythons (Burmese pythons) that have become established in Florida over the past few decades, but these snakes are usually smaller than reticulated pythons (Python reticulatus). "Burmese pythons have been measured up to 19 feet [5.8 m] long, although individuals over about 15 feet [4.6 m] are rare," Moon said.

But even though Burmese pythons aren't as large, it's still important to take precautions while trekking in python territory — for instance, by keeping an eye on small pets and children, as well as watching where you step, Moon said. After all, this is Indonesia's second python attack in just over a year; last March, a python swallowed a 25-year-old man in West Sulawesi province, the AP reported.

Original article on Live Science.

I have always heard that even a huge snake couldn't get his jaws around a humans shoulder
guess that ain't so
you folks in Florida be careful
News of a pickup-truck-size reticulated python k**... (show quote)


Don't people release pet snakes in Texas?
Are you saying that only Floridians are to stupid and they are the only ones releasing pythons into the wild?
You do have swamps in Texas well do you not that could hold and contain pythons like close to the Louisiana border.

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Jul 17, 2018 09:52:37   #
Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX
 
bahmer wrote:
Don't people release pet snakes in Texas?
Are you saying that only Floridians are to stupid and they are the only ones releasing pythons into the wild?
You do have swamps in Texas well do you not that could hold and contain pythons like close to the Louisiana border.
Don't people release pet snakes in Texas? img src... (show quote)


Maybe, but I heard that the hurricanes in FL caused the release of many snakes when they destroyed a few facilities that housed exotic snakes. Plus the glades are warmer than the swamps in LA or TX.

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Jul 17, 2018 10:02:04   #
bahmer
 
Peewee wrote:
Maybe, but I heard that the hurricanes in FL caused the release of many snakes when they destroyed a few facilities that housed exotic snakes. Plus the glades are warmer than the swamps in LA or TX.


Well badbobby hasn't been fishin in Texas because of the heat so I thought that they were about equal.
I played golf in Miami Florida in August one year and drank beer and pop all eighteen holes and never took a leak.
I took a shower to wash all of the salt off of my body from sweating the entire round both heat and humidity in Florida.

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Jul 17, 2018 10:32:47   #
Peewee Loc: San Antonio, TX
 
bahmer wrote:
Well badbobby hasn't been fishin in Texas because of the heat so I thought that they were about equal.
I played golf in Miami Florida in August one year and drank beer and pop all eighteen holes and never took a leak.
I took a shower to wash all of the salt off of my body from sweating the entire round both heat and humidity in Florida.
Well badbobby hasn't been fishin in Texas because ... (show quote)


The deep south will get a good snowfall about every ten years. But it has reached as far south as Del Rio, TX on the border. Not sure about Brownsville or the Galveston area.

In FL the orange groves have to keep moving south due to colder weather inching southward. The sugarcane fields around Lake Okeechobee are now sprouting orange groves after losing their crops further north over the last couple of decades.

As to humidity, LA. and FL. run neck and neck. Two places I've enjoyed a shower without using any hot water during the summer. Twenty minutes later, you are soaked in sweat again, if, you don't stay inside with the air conditioner.

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Jul 17, 2018 10:40:43   #
bahmer
 
Peewee wrote:
The deep south will get a good snowfall about every ten years. But it has reached as far south as Del Rio, TX on the border. Not sure about Brownsville or the Galveston area.

In FL the orange groves have to keep moving south due to colder weather inching southward. The sugarcane fields around Lake Okeechobee are now sprouting orange groves after losing their crops further north over the last couple of decades.

As to humidity, LA. and FL. run neck and neck. Two places I've enjoyed a shower without using any hot water during the summer. Twenty minutes later, you are soaked in sweat again, if, you don't stay inside with the air conditioner.
The deep south will get a good snowfall about ever... (show quote)


OK you saved BB's skin this time. 4 ataboys for you on that.

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Jul 17, 2018 12:33:42   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
bahmer wrote:
Don't people release pet snakes in Texas?
Are you saying that only Floridians are to stupid and they are the only ones releasing pythons into the wild?
You do have swamps in Texas well do you not that could hold and contain pythons like close to the Louisiana border.
Don't people release pet snakes in Texas? img src... (show quote)


Texan alligators would eat them before they got big
you should never mess with Texas

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Jul 17, 2018 16:12:08   #
bahmer
 
badbobby wrote:
Texan alligators would eat them before they got big
you should never mess with Texas


I bet that they are mean to right?

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Jul 17, 2018 16:21:42   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
bahmer wrote:
I bet that they are mean to right?


bigger and meaner

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Jul 17, 2018 16:23:36   #
bahmer
 
badbobby wrote:
bigger and meaner


Is that why you avoid them?

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Jul 17, 2018 16:29:36   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
bahmer wrote:
Is that why you avoid them?


when I can

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Jul 17, 2018 16:30:59   #
bahmer
 
badbobby wrote:
when I can


I bet that you wrestle gators for exercise right?

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Jul 17, 2018 16:33:28   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
bahmer wrote:
I bet that you wrestle gators for exercise right?


no sir
my barbells are enough

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Jul 17, 2018 16:36:43   #
bahmer
 
badbobby wrote:
no sir
my barbells are enough


I thought mama trained you better than that you
should be able to wrestle a gator with one hand by now.

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Jul 17, 2018 16:37:48   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
bahmer wrote:
I thought mama trained you better than that you
should be able to wrestle a gator with one hand by now.


I'll jus pass on that un

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