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Deadly African Rock Python can swallow a fully grown man whole

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Python sebae (African Rock Python), is a non-venomous python species found in subsaharan Africa. This is one of the world's largest species of snakes.

With adults reaching lengths of over 6 m (20 ft), this is one of the world's largest species of snakes. The typical adult length is 4.8 m (16 ft) and rumors of specimens over 20 feet are generally considered reliable, but larger specimens have never been confirmed.
The color pattern is typically brown, with olive and tan irregular blotching, fading to white on the underside. At a glance they can be easily mistaken for the Burmese python, P. m. bivittatus, but the two species are not closely related.

Attacks on humans are very uncommon. Although this species can easily kill an adult, there are only a few cases in which the victim, in most cases a child, was actually consumed. A Ugandan newspaper reported in 1951 that a 13-year-old boy was swallowed, but the python was forced to disgorge the body. In 1973 another newspaper reported that a Portuguese soldier was discovered in the stomach of a snake. In 1979 a 14.9 ft (4.5 m) python tried to eat a 13-year-old boy. It was discovered with the boy almost entirely swallowed, but after being hit by stones it regurgitated the body and retreated. The boy was 1.3 m tall and weighed 45 kg. The last known case in which a person was eaten occurred in South Africa in 2002, the victim being a 10-years-old child.

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  • aprach the snake with caution how about you dont go FUCKING NEAR IT

  • and thats why the humans invented guns....

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  • I would want to be swallowed by that snake :)

  • i want to be swallow alive by a big ass snake

  • if im in the bushes and saw that sun of a bitch ide go MWF2 on thT MOTHERFUCKER tar21 SEMTEX CLAYMORE C4 LOL

  • you think that a documentary type film should be factual. No wonder we get such bad names for owning these beautiful specimens

  • False video

  • Utter ridiculous video with a few half truths and many more straight out falsehoods. Very unimpressed!!

  • o my god

  • They don't crush, they suffocate. Great video though.

  • so can your mom

  • Why did the snake not crush the man quicker

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