UN Missing mother found dead inside 16-foot-long python after it swallowed her whole in Indonesia - The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.

A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python in the country since 2017.

The husband of 45-year-old Farida and residents of Kalempang village in South Sulawesi province discovered her on Friday inside the reticulated python, which measured around five meters (16 feet).

The mother-of-four had gone missing Thursday night and failed to return home, forcing a search effort, village head Suardi Rosi told AFP.

Her husband "found her belongings... which made him suspicious. The villagers then searched the area. They soon spotted a python with a large belly," said Suardi.

"They agreed to cut open the python's stomach. As soon as they did, Farida's head was immediately visible."

Farida was found fully clothed inside the snake.

Graphic video published by TMZ appeared to show the snake being cut open in a wooded area while more footage posted by the Daily Mail appeared to show the woman's body being carried in a blanket past distressed villagers.

Other similar incidents in recent years​

Reticulated pythons grab onto their prey with dozens of sharp curved teeth and then squeeze it to death before swallowing it whole. They are widespread in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, and are known to eat monkeys, pigs and other mammals.


A reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) wriggles over a tree trunk at Hagenbeck Zoo in December 2021.
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Reports of humans being killed by pythons are extremely rare but several people have died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed whole by pythons.

Last year, residents in Southeast Sulawesi's Tinanggea district killed an eight-meter python, which was found strangling and eating one of the farmers in a village.

In 2022, a woman in Indonesia's Jambi province was killed and swallowed whole by a python, the BBC reported, citing local media.

In 2018, a woman was found dead inside a seven-meter python in Southeast Sulawesi's Muna town. Officials said the victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village.

In 2017, a farmer in West Sulawesi went missing before being found eaten alive by a four-meter python at a palm oil plantation. A six-minute video obtained by CBS News showed villagers slicing open the python's carcass to reveal the legs and torso of the dead victim, named Akbar. Villagers said the victim was likely ambushed from behind.

"Reputation for being aggressive"​

The reticulated python is the longest snake in the world, according to London's Natural History Museum. They are native to Southern Asia and can grow to be more than 20 feet long.

The longest reticulated python ever found in the wild was discovered in 1912, according to the museum, and was measured to be nearly 33 feet long – "more than half the length of a bowling lane and makes this snake longer than a giraffe is tall."

Zoo Atlanta, which houses reticulated pythons, says the snakes "have a reputation for being aggressive."

The snakes are occasionally kept as pets in the U.S.

Last year, a 14-foot-long reticulated python was found dead on side of the road on Long Island, prompting a search for its owner.

In 2022, a 16-foot albino reticulated python that slithered through a Texas neighborhood for months was finally rescued and returned to its owner.

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[National Defense Advocate]

Actually fuckin horrifying.
I will simply never travel to a country that has snakes that can eat my whole.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

Actually fuckin horrifying.
I will simply never travel to a country that has snakes that can eat my whole.

Remember those 50ft snake photos from the plane that came out years ago? Could you imagine if those fuckers were real, fuck a 50ft snake wouldn't even have to do whatever snakes do with their jaws to eat large mammals But I am still curious just how big this things head was. Even a small women is still pretty wide for a animal to just swallow whole.

 

[mister fireworks]

@mister fireworks my retarded pythons don’t even grab them right half the time but they always wrap the whole body, I doubt a snake is smart enough to target the neck area. A really large reticulated python could easily subdue a small woman if she was completely caught off guard. I think it’s a questionable they should even be kept as pets tbh. They need huge enclosures most people can never provide.

How big are your pythons? I'm the third owner of mine and its gotta be 3-4 years old at least. end to end its almost 4 ft but its pretty skinny. I guess now that i think about it the snake does kind of wrap around the mouse when it eats it (but the mouse is dead/thawed so it just kind of chugs it down super fast so the wrapping part looked more to me like it was just kind of positioning it to be eaten rather than squeezing it. I thought it might go for the neck since its the skinniest part of the body and its easy to feel the pulse in the neck.

I agree with you about keeping large snakes. My dog died last year and it was and is still incredibly painful for me to consider even looking for a new dog. The snake is so low maintenance and it was free/needed a home so I thought it would be a good way for me to take on a new pet without all the emotional investment. But its more like having a plant than an animal. Its cute and easy to deal with but to be completely honest I dont really understand the appeal for people who are really into having them as pets. A large python would need an enclosure the size of a car to comfortably roam around and the kind of person who would get something that big and scary to most people probably doesnt have their shit together enough to give them the space. It doesnt help that they live such a long time and are very difficult to hunt due to their lack of smell. I think florida pays a bounty for each python caught and killed in the everglades since so many white trash retards in florida simply dump the snakes once they get sick of taking care of them, or just are so careless that they allow their snakes to escape.

 

[mister fireworks]

double post sorry

Remember those 50ft snake photos from the plane that came out years ago? Could you imagine if those fuckers were real, fuck a 50ft snake wouldn't even have to do whatever snakes do with their jaws to eat large mammals But I am still curious just how big this things head was. Even a small women is still pretty wide for a animal to just swallow whole.

I think since the snake can unhinge its jaw, the hips could be managed if the snake ingested her while she was flipped on her side if that makes sense? I think the opening of the mouth can typically handle a larger circumference than the skinnier parts of the body. I recall seeing a picture of a snake that had eaten a gator and its body had ruptured as it was trying to digest it. And to your point about the snake constricting around your belly... I guess I just cant picture it being so easy since we have arms/hands and presumably this woman had gardening instruments to stab and cut at the snake. Theres probably snakes somewhere who eat monkeys, but it seems like a big obstacle for a constricting snake to get a human would be that it would, it it couldnt get around the neck, need to wrap itself around the arms as well. even letting one flailing arm out would allow you to grab som gardening shears and stab the fucker.

On another note, what would be the best thing to do if you walked outside and saw a big snake trying to kill someone? I've heard squirting snakes that are coiled on hands with rubbing alcohol works, or putting under cold water. Is there a noxious gas you could spray in the air that would get the snake to fuck off but not injure the victim too much?

 

[Mac Monster]

Remember those 50ft snake photos from the plane that came out years ago? Could you imagine if those fuckers were real, fuck a 50ft snake wouldn't even have to do whatever snakes do with their jaws to eat large mammals But I am still curious just how big this things head was. Even a small women is still pretty wide for a animal to just swallow whole.

The biggest snake to ever exist was  Titanoboa, which is estimated to measure around 40 feet long. Due to how big it was, it was probably a very cumbersome animal on land and would have mostly eaten fish.

It could definitely still swallow a human though.

 

[Point and Laugh]

How big are your pythons?

They’re young so 2.5-4 feet. Snakes can comfortably eat prey the size of the widest part of their body. If you’re feeding by the size of the head it’s way too small. And they aren’t thin snakes. Pythons and most restrictors are very heavy bodied snakes. They move relatively slowly, until they strike of course.

Snakes like cobras and many venomous snakes are really long and thin because they move around quickly. Pythons ambush their prey because they are fat and slow until they strike (they strike incredibly fast though). They also don’t “unhinge” their jaws. Their jawbones are all separate and don’t actually connect to each other except by connective tissue. So they can comfortably stretch their mouth to be the size of the largest part of their body and often larger than that. Each side can move separately to kind “walk” a prey down their throat.

It’s pretty fascinating. There’s even a study on the metabolism of pythons because there is no other animal on earth that can increase its metabolism so high. Their organs grow by 30% when they’re digesting food and their metabolism increases by almost 4000%. Anyway here’s a pic of a python jaw. Large ones could easily eat a small person. It’s just rare because humans really aren’t seen as prey by most animals no matter their size. That’s why it’s international news when it does.



Edit @mister fireworks I think most of the ones in Florida they’re having issues with are the Burmese pythons. They also get really big, just not aggressive like reticulated pythons.

 

[CoolFool]

So what are you supposed to do if you find yourself getting constricted by a giant snake?

 

[Psyduck]

JustinRPG is currently masturbating to this article

 

[Point and Laugh]

So what are you supposed to do if you find yourself getting constricted by a giant snake?

Think good thoughts for the minutes you have left?

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

I think since the snake can unhinge its jaw, the hips could be managed if the snake ingested her while she was flipped on her side if that makes sense? I think the opening of the mouth can typically handle a larger circumference than the skinnier parts of the body. I recall seeing a picture of a snake that had eaten a gator and its body had ruptured as it was trying to digest it. And to your point about the snake constricting around your belly... I guess I just cant picture it being so easy since we have arms/hands and presumably this woman had gardening instruments to stab and cut at the snake. Theres probably snakes somewhere who eat monkeys, but it seems like a big obstacle for a constricting snake to get a human would be that it would, it it couldnt get around the neck, need to wrap itself around the arms as well. even letting one flailing arm out would allow you to grab som gardening shears and stab the fucker.

Yea I've heard it doesn't matter the snakes head size it can eat something the size of its body or a little larger something like that. They are interesting animals but normally snakes ambush their prey and are extremely fast, so I would imagine the woman didn't see it and by the time it struck she was as good as dead. I mean they are incredibly strong, just a little 4ft Ball Python is very strong kinda hard to unwrap from your arm. I could imagine trying to get a 16 foot one off if it has bitten and constricted around you, it would be very hard to breathe if she was lucky and it didn't pin her arms down she could have tried to cut it with the shears but my guess is it probably bit one arm and constricted around the arms pinning them down and it was over from that moment on. I doubt the biggest human alive could go from having its arms pinned by a constricted snake to being able to get out of that. It probably is the hardest prey a snake could possible go after but I'm sure if it was hungry then the risk was worth it?

The biggest snake to ever exist was  Titanoboa, which is estimated to measure around 40 feet long. Due to how big it was, it was probably a very cumbersome animal on land and would have mostly eaten fish.
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It could definitely still swallow a human though.

Was that a ancient snake in Australia or something? Definitely not something I would wanna stumble upon

 

[mister fireworks]

So what are you supposed to do if you find yourself getting constricted by a giant snake?

I think snakes probably avoid smoke/fires. If you had dry wood readily available you could create like a bunch of fire pits around your house to keep the snakes away? maybe even create some kind of weird goth/hellraiser style vest with nails/spikes poking out of it on the back and wear it when you're doing gardening or in thick brush. There literally are these crazy expanding body armour things that people wear on motorcycles for when they crash. they are triggered automatically somehow and I dont think they actually add that much safety to a moto accident, but if money were no object, you could wear one of those and it might have the force to at least stun the snake when it lunges at you.

Maybe you could also have like a sacrificial animal chained up nearby like a goat or something? if the snake is nearby maybe it will go for that instead of the person. Of course, that could invite more trouble.

Probably if you lived in an area like this it would be worth it to form a posse and try to find and kill the big snakes. The best defense is a good offense.

 

[Point and Laugh]

This video is a great explanation of how fast pythons strike and coil around their prey. This one is a small Burmese python but they grow to 10-15 feet. A full grown reticulated python wouldn’t have a problem grabbing a small woman off her feet and coiling around her in less than one second.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

I think snakes probably avoid smoke/fires. If you had dry wood readily available you could create like a bunch of fire pits around your house to keep the snakes away?

They also like to live in piles of dry wood, I live in a area with 3 poisonous snakes and I have seen copperheads under firewood multiple times now. I've never seen a rattler that close to a house just chilling under a pile of wood but I've seen copperheads very close to houses and they well camouflaged. Hopefully since its firewood if you run into one its on a nice cold day when they are normally sluggish but even then they are dangerous.

This video is a great explanation of how fast pythons strike and coil around their prey. This one is a small Burmese python but they grow to 10-15 feet.

There is a problem in FL with wild Burmese pythons, I assume they were pets that got let out in the wild but they are taking over and I believe you can get a license to go capture or kill these invaders. Also I think a full grown one at 12-18 foot could easily kill and maybe eat a child

 

[CoolFool]

I think snakes probably avoid smoke/fires. If you had dry wood readily available you could create like a bunch of fire pits around your house to keep the snakes away? maybe even create some kind of weird goth/hellraiser style vest with nails/spikes poking out of it on the back and wear it when you're doing gardening or in thick brush. There literally are these crazy expanding body armour things that people wear on motorcycles for when they crash. they are triggered automatically somehow and I dont think they actually add that much safety to a moto accident, but if money were no object, you could wear one of those and it might have the force to at least stun the snake when it lunges at you.

Maybe you could also have like a sacrificial animal chained up nearby like a goat or something? if the snake is nearby maybe it will go for that instead of the person. Of course, that could invite more trouble.

Probably if you lived in an area like this it would be worth it to form a posse and try to find and kill the big snakes. The best defense is a good offense.

All of this sounds like fine advice if you live in an area where you expect to find one of these things, but what if you live in an area where they shouldn't exist yet you happen upon one anyways? Maybe some idiot pet owner didn't secure it and it escaped. Now you're walking in the woods and stumble upon it. Other than running (I'm assuming you can out run a big snake right?) I'm not sure what you could do if it grabs you and starts constricting. Sounds like you're just shit out of luck.

 

[Point and Laugh]

Also I think a full grown one at 12-18 foot could easily kill and maybe eat a child

They won’t get 18 feet but they could possibly eat a small child an infant or small dog. They are pets people stupidly bought to look cool then grew too big to care for so they let them go and now they’re invasive. The fact that people are almost never attacked by constrictors is testament that snakes really don’t have an interest in doing so. There are extremely rare cases and it’s always in remote jungle areas. No one really needs to worry about constrictors. Venomous snakes are the ones to look out for.

 

[mister fireworks]

They also like to live in piles of dry wood, I live in a area with 3 poisonous snakes and I have seen copperheads under firewood multiple times now. I've never seen a rattler that close to a house just chilling under a pile of wood but I've seen copperheads very close to houses and they well camouflaged. Hopefully since its firewood if you run into one its on a nice cold day when they are normally sluggish but even then they are dangerous.

There is a problem in FL with wild Burmese pythons, I assume they were pets that got let out in the wild but they are taking over and I believe you can get a license to go capture or kill these invaders. Also I think a full grown one at 12-18 foot could easily kill and maybe eat a child

Yeah I live in a similar climate as you I think. My assumption was that these big ass snakes were mainly in tropical environments, so there probably other venomous snakes to worry about, but that they wouldnt be common to firewood. I think they might also mainly just burn brush or fallen tree leaves in tropical areas since the rainfall would make it impossible to just stack hardwood for burning outside.


The florida pythons are, to my knowledge an invasive species there for the exact reason you mentioned. I saw some psycho on insta who just goes around yoinking all the non native snake, gecko, and lizard species he finds in the Everglades and "re-homes" them. The snakes seem to fuck shit up the most, but i think also the biggest issue in terms of child death by scary animal remains gators in florida. they just show up in people's pools and I think they kill a few young kids every year.

 

[UnKillFill]

Man, the Indonesian version of Snake Eater isn't messing around.

 

[mister fireworks]

All of this sounds like fine advice if you live in an area where you expect to find one of these things, but what if you live in an area where they shouldn't exist yet you happen upon one anyways? Maybe some idiot pet owner didn't secure it and it escaped. Now you're walking in the woods and stumble upon it. Other than running (I'm assuming you can out run a big snake right?) I'm not sure what you could do if it grabs you and starts constricting. Sounds like you're just shit out of luck.

Someone who knows more than me can chime in, but I dont think you have to worry about this unless you live in an area thats known to have gigantic snakes. If its not tropical, youre good. Snakes need big prey to get that big over many years. It seem like a statistical improbability that you would be in a place where nobody had ever seen a scary huge snake and have one come up on you. If you are just thinking about vacation, thats also probably fine. These people who are killed by snakes are probably quite poor and live in rural/poor areas where they are bumped up right against wild life. Hippos kill a shitload more people each year in africa but if you travel there on Safari you dont have to worry about being killed unless you act like a lunatic and jump out of the jeep like a wild banshee against the pleas of your guides.

edited to add: if you are in North America you should be more careful about small, venomous snakes. I ran over a rattler on my bike that was coiled on a trail and i threw my legs up as i couldnt avoid it but i was really scared about getting bit. Even in the midwest they have water moccasins and other nasty little venomous snakes/spiders. If you see one, run. and if you go hiking, read that little sign they always post at the trail head to see what horrors could befall you if you arent careful. If you wanna freak yourself out, read about bear encounters.

 

[Mitt Doggy Dogg]

They won’t get 18 feet but they could possibly eat a small child an infant or small dog. They are pets people stupidly bought to look cool then grew too big to care for so they let them go and now they’re invasive.

So 15 feet is their max size normally? I thought Burmese pythons could reach up to around 19 foot or so, but that's if they are in captivity and are feed extremely well. Anyway yea in North America it's the poisonous ones that are dangerous, just in my state there are three that I know of, Water moccasin, Copperhead and Timber Rattlers, and now I don't think I've ever personally seen a Water moccasin but copperheads and rattlers are pretty common. And they can be extremely fast, they all seem pretty scared of humans and only attack because they are afraid we will hurt them whereas I've been followed by a Black Rat snake for about a mile snapping at me the whole time, It was around 5 foot or maybe 6 foot, hard to accurately judge that when you are rushing out of the woods being followed by a pissed off snake that you didn't do anything to.

Yeah I live in a similar climate as you I think. My assumption was that these big ass snakes were mainly in tropical environments, so there probably other venomous snakes to worry about, but that they wouldnt be common to firewood

I believe all three of the poisonous ones where I live are in multiple states and areas, I would guess they are predominately in the South East but could probably be in the North East and Mid West also but I don't know that for sure. Rattlers are a lot bigger then copperheads and will normally shake their tail as a warning before striking, personally I hope I don't ever need that warning since if you are that close you are probably within striking distance. I've always been much more afraid of copperheads since those little bastards turn up just about anywhere but like I said firewood piles are a favorite spot for them and I would highly suggest gloves and a thick jacket before collecting any firewood piled up.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

Monty, nooooo!