Two interesting things in nature news this week!
8 years ago
First, we have the first more or less proven incident of an adult human being eaten by a snake. There have been anecdotal reports before and some fuzzy pictures that may or may not have been faked, but this one looks pretty real.
http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/29/ma.....-belly-python/
Now this is notable because pretty much any average person thinks this happens quite a lot, but a lot of naturalists were pretty sure it hadn't, or at least is very, very rare. Most animals are more or less cylindrical once their legs are folded to their sides, whereas humans have broad shoulders. It is very, very hard for a snake to get its jaws over an adult human's shoulders. For it TO happen you need both a very large snake and probably a human of slight build. I would lay money that the man eaten in this case was quite slender.
(Snopes is still holding out the possibility that this was faked. We'll see if there is further confirmation.)
Second is an amazingly determined badger that buried a whole (dead) calf several times its own size so it could feast at its leisure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msdgAJ7tCX8 (The version without the Benny Hill music)
This will probably inspire me to draw more micropred badger on human vore, or do another story. 83
http://www.snopes.com/2017/03/29/ma.....-belly-python/
Now this is notable because pretty much any average person thinks this happens quite a lot, but a lot of naturalists were pretty sure it hadn't, or at least is very, very rare. Most animals are more or less cylindrical once their legs are folded to their sides, whereas humans have broad shoulders. It is very, very hard for a snake to get its jaws over an adult human's shoulders. For it TO happen you need both a very large snake and probably a human of slight build. I would lay money that the man eaten in this case was quite slender.
(Snopes is still holding out the possibility that this was faked. We'll see if there is further confirmation.)
Second is an amazingly determined badger that buried a whole (dead) calf several times its own size so it could feast at its leisure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msdgAJ7tCX8 (The version without the Benny Hill music)
This will probably inspire me to draw more micropred badger on human vore, or do another story. 83
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Dan nature, damn.