In the family of snakes, the python can be said to be the largest one, generally speaking, the body length of the python is about three to five meters, and most pythons themselves are not poisonous. If you encounter a python in the wild, the chance of escape is still very large, but for those who fail to escape, they may die in the mouth of the python, so if they are really swallowed by the python, is it possible to use the knife in their hands to break the abdomen to save themselves? A scientist in the United States once personally did this experiment.
Incidents of pythons swallowing people are not uncommon
One day in September 1995, local police in Malaysia received a call from the police saying that his brother had been swallowed by a python and needed help. After putting down the phone, the police rushed to the scene without stopping. Under the glare of a flashlight, a giant python wrapped tightly around the victim and opened its mouth wide, devouring the victim's shoulder position.
The rumble of this giant python made many people feel creepy, and at this moment, the police shone the glare of the flashlight on the eyes of the python, or the python was frightened, and soon gave up the prey in its mouth and fled in a hurry. The rescued victims were not in serious trouble except for the shoulder injury. And the most fortunate thing is that this python is non-venomous.
According to the victim's description: "I was walking in the park that night, I didn't expect a python to emerge from the woods, I was frightened at the time, I originally wanted to escape, but I was stopped by the python, its winding ability is really strong, this time it is really scary." "
Coincidentally, an Australian small-town peasant woman was accidentally attacked by a python when she was doing farm work in her family's field, when her husband came to the field to find her, only to see that the ground was all red blood, and looked for it in a low-lying place of more than 10 meters along the blood mark, a giant python more than five meters long was motionless, and her stomach bulged very high, and the peasant woman's husband immediately understood what was going on, and quickly ran back to the town to call people, but it was too late, and the peasant woman who was swallowed into the belly of the python had already died in Huangquan.
How exactly do pythons hunt and eat?
It should be known that the python relies on crawling, and it relies on the vibration of the prey and the associated heat during the hunting process. Among many animals, the snake is short-sighted, its vision is very poor, even if you see the snake, the snake will have a hard time seeing you. The reason why they will find you immediately is mainly based on the shock and heat of their own perception ability, these two sensations work together on the snake, the snake only needs a thousandth of a second to determine your final position.
Almost most pythons are non-venomous, and they only need three steps during the hunting process. The first step is to bite the prey deadly, bite the prey with its own strong teeth, the second step is to wind, put the prey in the middle, and then use the tail to wrap it into a circle, tighten it by its own muscle strength, it will sense the place where the heart of the prey vibrates, and then concentrate all its strength to tighten the prey's heart around the prey's heart, and wrap the prey to death.
The final step is to swallow the entire prey into its mouth to prevent the prey from resisting, and it will swallow the prey alive into its abdomen. During feeding, if the prey is inanimate, the python clamps its body with its teeth and then relies on the widened mandible to move left and right to swallow it into its stomach.
Can a python be swallowed and then cut through the abdomen with a knife?
In search of answers, Paul, a scientist from the United States, dressed in armor, decided to try the death experiment himself. He found the world's largest python, the Green Forest Hopper, and also publicized that he would record the footage of himself being swallowed alive by the python. To make sure nothing goes wrong, the entire Paul team was well prepared.
The first is the self-defense armor, it is composed of special equipment, with multiple layers of protection, can detect body temperature and heart rate, in order to prevent impact and bite also use carbon fiber material, it can be said that this armor can withstand the python squeeze force 3 times, of course, there are oxygen cylinders, respiratory system, detection of life instruments and communication and other equipment.
In the rainforest of the Amazon, Paul and his team found a female green grasshopper with an entire body length of more than seven meters, and judging by the length of the entire python, Paul was very small in front of it.
When the python saw Paul, it seemed to be frightened by one of his equipment, and had been dodging it, and in order to make the python hook, Paul also deliberately smeared pig blood on his armor, and under repeated provocations, the python finally couldn't bear to start attacking Paul.
It wrapped its body around Paul, and at this time Paul felt a thick rope binding himself, and it was getting tighter and tighter, and finally the python opened its huge mouth and swallowed Paul's head into his mouth, and Paul felt that his arm was about to break and his protective suit was about to break, so he quickly sent a distress signal.
In this way, under the unremitting efforts of the team, Paul was rescued. Paul had a fracture in his arm. If it is later, it is possible to kill Huangquan. Afterwards, Paul introduced: "Although the self-defense armor is very heavy, the pressure on the python is very large. There is a feeling that you are about to be suffocated, breathing is also difficult, and it is impossible to cut the python with a dagger to save yourself, because you may die just swallowing the python.
This experiment also tells us very well that no matter what kind of tool you have in your hand, as long as you are swallowed by a python, the chances of survival are very slim. Because the power of the python is very large, as long as it is wrapped or bitten by it, then it can only wait for death, all the struggle is useless, the more you struggle, the more tightly the python will be wrapped tightly, and finally it will be strangled.
What if I do encounter a python?
Under normal circumstances, pythons will appear in sparsely populated rainforests or swamps, we still try to risk as little as possible, once we encounter pythons in such places, the only way is to keep running away, or find a shelter to cover ourselves. As long as the python leaves, it won't chase you anymore. If you are really unlucky and can't escape, then aim at the anus of the python, under the pain, they will give up the entanglement, and then you may escape.
Although pythons attack and harm humans, as long as we don't risk catching them, we will be safe. It is everyone's responsibility to protect animals in the homeland of the beautiful earth, and it is not the price of life to over-catch pythons because of their own selfish desires!