Not my pic. This was sent to me by a mate, an Old Asia hand, but I cannot vouch for the provenance.
Still I do know that the two creatures most feared by Dayaks in the old days were the Sun bear and the python.
A big one can easily swallow a man
Those diggers have long arms and this one is holding the snake out to the camera. In the pic the snake looks huge compared to the digger driver, but look at it relative to the bucket of the digger. The bucket isn't much bigger than a wheelbarrow.
That said, it's still a big snake from my perspective!
The fake comes full circle then back to BCUK.
Thanks for highlighting it.
Accounts by the Dayak claim that people have been swallowed by large snakes. From experience when they say something has happened it usuallly has. There may be no recent accounts and the snakes may be smaller than before due to habitat and prey species loss.
And with that post you just clocked 4,000 posts
What's the competetion going to be?
jon my good you must ave a lot to say cos i am a chatter box and well i am only on 2000 and summing posts lol
... The snake may grow, but the head doesn't get very big whatever length they attain. It's a perpetuated myth that snakes can dislocate their jaws, only the bottom jaw can separate, not dislocate. The top jaw/bottom jaw hinge is fixed. A large retics head is still quite small, the anacondas gets much larger, but again, still has the same problems with our anatomy that no other animal in the world has.
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So they do not dislocate our bones just suffocate their prey?
Not taking issue with you but why then can they swallow quite large pigs and other game?
Thanks for the explanation and your patience. Very clear. Now I will do my best to squelch the myth.