A Reticulated python measuring about five meters completely swallowed a 45-year-old woman in a village in Indonesia. The victim, who had been missing since Thursday night, was found by her husband and a group of neighbors.
The horrific episode took place in the village of Kalempangin the province of South Sulawesi, as announced this Saturday by a local official.
Since the disappearance of the woman, whose name was Farida and was mother of four childrentheir search had begun, the village head, Suardi Rosi, explained to the AFP agency.
Neighbors searched the area and quickly saw “a python with a big belly“explained Suardi Rosi.”They decided to open her stomach and Farida’s head appeared“, who was fully clothed inside the snake.
These types of incidents are extremely unusual, but Several people died in Indonesia in recent years after being swallowed by pythons.
In 2023, residents of the Tinanggea district in the southeast of Sulawesi island killed an eight-month-old python that had suffocated and eaten a farmer.
In 2018, A 54-year-old woman was found dead inside a seven-meter python in the city of Muna, also in Southeast Sulawesi. Past year, a farmer in western Sulawesi was eaten by a four-meter python.
Curiosities of the reticulated python
According to Nathional Geographic, the reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) It is native to the area that includes Southeast Asiato the southeast of Vietnam as well as in the Indo-Pacific islands of New Guinea.
This animal has a large presence in habitats of tropical forests, forests with grasslands, and wetlands. It is also usually found in places with high elevation (between 1200 and 2500 meters).
Likewise, it has an average of 4.78 meters long and weighs 170 kilograms, although they found specimens up to 9 meters long and 270 kilogramswhat makes it the longest snake found so far. As ADW explains, females tend to be larger than malessince their growth can reach up to 6.09 meters, while males average around 4.5 meters.
The skin of the reticulated python is characterized by having a light yellow color combined with brown and black lines on the dorsal partas well as it may also have a black line from the snout to the nape of the neck.
It is an oviparous snake, and when it lays eggs it stays coiled on top of them to give them warmth, but when the babies are born it is their own responsibility to provide themselves with food and protection. It was proven that they have the ability to live for up to 32 years.
