snake facts 1
1. Reticulated Pythons Will Eat Humans There’s only one recorded case of a person being eaten by a snake from 2017. It leaves one to wonder if it’s been happening in the past and nobody knew about it. Just because this case was caught on camera, doesn’t mean it’s the first. An Indonesian man by the name of Akbar Salubiro had gone missing and was found inside a snake in Sulawesi. The reticulated python that ate this man was 23 feet long. The man’s last known whereabouts had been harvesting palm oil before his disappearance. 2. Rattlesnakes Can Still Bite Even When They’re Dead Most people that live in rattlesnake country know that if you must kill a rattlesnake, you need to cut off its head and bury it. That’s because the snakes have a slow metabolism, so even though they’re technically dead, they still have some reflexes that haven’t shut down yet. They can still strike and envenomate. While rattlesnakes are the most notorious for this, it can happen with any venomous snake. If yo...