In all the man-versus-python stories, the snake is almost always the coldblooded antagonist.

Reticulated pythons like the ones involved in two attacks in Indonesia this year are among the world’s longest and strongest. They kill by coiling around their prey and squeezing until its heart stops. Then the serpents swallow their victims whole.

It’s certainly the stuff of villains. Even when the end result isn’t death, the attacks often make international headlines.

But scientists and snake lovers say the strikes may be more than just alarming stories about reptilian foes. They may be the indirect result of our global food chain’s insatiable desire for an inexpensive product.

The latest snake attack victim was Robert Nababan, according to Metro. On Sept. 30, he was riding his moped home from his security job at an oil palm tree farm in Indonesia when he came across a gigantic python lying across the road — and tried to move it.
Accounts diverge from there. Some say he was simply trying to clear the road; others say he was trying to capture the snake.

What happened next is not in dispute: The python latched onto his arm and began to coil, the reports say. At some point, it also bit his head. He was able to dislodge the animal, possibly with a machete, but not before he was seriously injured.

He was rushed to a hospital where doctors treated him. His snake attack story rocketed around the globe.

Picture below show Villagers stand beside a nearly 26-foot-long python that was killed after it attacked an Indonesian man, nearly severing his arm, in the remote Batang Gansal subdistrict of Sumatra Island. Hungry locals later killed the snake and displayed its carcass in the village before dicing it up, frying it and feasting on it. (Batang Gansal Police/AFP)

Source https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/worldviews/wp/2017/10/04/giant-pythons-keep-attacking-indonesian-people-and-people-might-be-to-blame/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fzen.yandex.com

Wow

One has to be careful in forest areas Ooo

Something is telling me that the pictures are fake