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GreenWave

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5. This topic gets kicked around a bit.

Reply to iemanja (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 26, 2022, 04:02 PM

Oct 2022

A reticulated python could conceivably kill and swallow a pretty small adult with not wide shoulder blades. Almost for sure it would have to in feet first.

Regular sized people fear not. It cannot swallow you after it kills you.

Sorry I was snappy earlier.

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Woman goes to work, gets swallowed whole by 22-foot python [View all] iemanja Oct 2022 OP

Incredible. hlthe2b Oct 2022 #1

I have to call this one out. GreenWave Oct 2022 #2

So you don't think the snake could have swallowed her? iemanja Oct 2022 #3

This topic gets kicked around a bit. GreenWave Oct 2022 #5

Don't need to crush the shoulder blades. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2022 #4

I recall a herpetologist explaining this GreenWave Oct 2022 #6

Pics/vids, not of this incident but of python constrictors having eaten humans Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2022 #7

The article sites experts iemanja Oct 2022 #11

I'm pretty sure the actual constriction takes place when you breathe out, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2022 #14

Not arguing (I have no clue) but later in the article underpants Oct 2022 #10

Ignorance asking: no_hypocrisy Oct 2022 #8

No iemanja Oct 2022 #9

I used to work at our local zoo. MuseRider Oct 2022 #12

OMG! iemanja Oct 2022 #13