Snakes are creatures that most people are afraid of, and if we encounter snakes in the wild, we will probably be frightened, and if we are attacked by a large python, we may be in danger. In the Philippines, a man was suddenly attacked by a 3-meter-long python, and was bitten by a python and entangled in his body. And this big python was roasted and eaten by the local villagers.
The man was haunted by a 3-meter-long python
It happened in the town of Antequera in Bohol, Philippines, when it was around midnight when the 48-year-old Filipino man Borjulio Aleria was driving on the road on a motorcycle when he suddenly noticed a large python rushing out of the grass and blocking him. This large python is quite large, measuring about 3 meters in length.
At first, the man planned to stop the car and give way, and wait for the python to pass before he passed, but the python suddenly attacked it. Faced with the sudden sneak attack, before the man could react, his hand was bitten by the python, and then the tail of the python began to wrap around his waist.
At the moment of life and death, the man decided to fight back, because he knew that if he didn't fight back, he would be entangled in the python and suffocated. So he grabbed the head of the snake with the hand that had not been injured by the python, bit the neck of the python fiercely, and bit the python until the python was bitten until the flesh and blood were blurred.
After 10 minutes of fighting, the big python that was bitten by the man began to loosen, slowly let go of the man, and finally the big python died. The man began to experience dizziness due to excessive blood loss. Fortunately, in the end, he dragged his injured body and staggered to a nearby house, where local villagers found out and called an ambulance to take him to the hospital for treatment.
Fortunately, the man was not bitten by the big python in the artery, and this big python is a non-venomous Burmese python, so after treatment, the man's body quickly recovered.
The result of this big python was different, after being bitten to death by the man, some local villagers took it back and roasted it.
Indonesian woman swallowed by a python
In the face of pythons, we humans are still more dangerous, because some pythons are quite large, and if they are entangled by pythons, it will be difficult to get out, and they may eventually be swallowed by pythons. This happened last year.
In Indonesia's Jambi province, a woman went missing after her husband reported to the police that he had disappeared after going to work. Subsequently, a search team of local villagers and police formed a search team, and although the woman was not directly found, her sandals were found in the forest. They then found a large python that was said to be 7 meters long, and they suspected that the python might have eaten the woman, so they grabbed the large python and killed it. After cutting open the belly of the python, the woman's body was found in the belly.
How big can a snake get?
The large python that is several meters long is indeed frightening, and if you see a big python with a thick bowl mouth and thick thighs, it is estimated that many people will tremble with fear. So how big can a snake grow on Earth?
In fact, snakes are not infinitely grown, and there is a limit to their body length. Like some very small snakes, their body length may be less than 1 meter, and no matter how much time and food they are given, they will not be able to break through the limit and grow to a few meters long. And some snakes are relatively large, such as cobras, king cobras, cauliflower snakes, and pythons, which can reach two or three meters long or even longer, among which the body length of pythons can reach more than 5 meters. However, large pythons with a body length of more than 5 meters are still relatively rare, after all, whether the snake can grow to such a long length will be limited by many factors.
Snakes are cold-blooded animals, and temperature plays a very important role in their growth. In the lower latitudes of the tropics, snakes are generally larger, such as in Southeast Asia, the Amazon rainforest, there are huge pythons, and in those high latitudes, snakes are relatively small.
This is because the mobility of cold-blooded animals is affected by the temperature, and when the temperature is low, their ability to move is limited, and if the temperature drops to a certain level, the snake will also go into hibernation. In relatively high temperatures, snakes may not need to hibernate and may be able to come out for food for a longer period of time, so as to obtain more food and be relatively large.
In prehistory, there was a prehistoric python known as the Titan Python, which reached a body length of more than 15 meters and a weight of about 1 ton. The reason why such a huge prehistoric python appeared was that there was a "high fever" on the earth at that time, and the temperature was very high, and those pythons were relatively large. However, these prehistoric pythons have become extinct, and now the largest snake on the earth is the python, and the common python can generally reach about 5 meters in length.