![]() ![]() It was discovered later that the 22 foot-long python had eaten the man whole. In March, a local villager mysteriously disappeared on Sulawesi Island. Indonesia is home to some of the world's biggest reptiles and attacks against humans are faily common. Local villagers then hung the snake's body up, where it was played with by local children. ![]() He told AFP that another security guard and several local residents ultimately helped to save Nababan's life, one of which hit the snake with a log. Giant pythons can regularly grow to more than 20 feet but this particular snake, to local police chief Sutarja said, was "unbelievably huge." "My brother is still weak condition" one of family members said. It is unclear how long the fight went on for and as reporters interviewing Nababan were ejected from the hospital before hearing the full story. It bit my arm, and we wrestled for a while" Nababan, a security guard at a palm oil plantation company, recalled. ![]() Nababan, who briefly spoke to local reporters from his hospital bed, said he encountered the python in the evening of September 30 as he was riding his motorcycle home from his work. A security guard nearly lost his left arm wrestling a 26ft python on a remote country road in Indonesia.īut Robert Nababan, 37, from Riau, Sumatra, got off far lighter than the snake, which was caught and then eaten by locals. ET Wednesday to include Zoltan Takacs' thoughts.įollow Brian Clark Howard on Twitter and Google+. ET Tuesday to include Bryan Fry's thoughts, and at 11:30 a.m. ET Wednesday to include a discussion about the uncertainty of the kind of fish fighting the sea snake, at 9:00 p.m. Trippe says the sea snake attacked the fish again as soon as he released them back into the water. "Venom toxins are among the most potent and precision-targeted molecules on Earth," Takacs adds. "This sea snake-fish encounter is a work-in-progress in 'nature's research lab' and this is how future medications are being 'designed,'" says Takacs, who notes that several drugs have been developed from snake venoms, for major diseases from hypertension to heart attack. WATCH: The stonefish hides on the sea bottom, undetectable to its prey.īy witnessing such predator-prey encounters, we get a window into evolution in action, says Zoltan Takacs, a herpetologist and pharmacologist who is the founder of the World Toxin Bank and an explorer with National Geographic. It's possiblly not really a stonefish, as Trippe thought, but actually a species of harmless frogfish, says Bryan Fry, a National Geographic explorer and biologist who studies venom at the University of Queensland. It's also difficult to identify the fish. But he agrees with Trippe that an elegant sea snake ( Hydrophis elegans) is a possibility, based on the coloring and location. On the surface, Battlesnake seems like a simple game with a small number of basic rules: Don’t run into walls or other snakes Don’t starve Don’t get eaten by another snake Once you break. It’s hard to identify the species of sea snake from photos, Murphy says, because the precise scale counts are often needed to distinguish similar types. Murphy, a sea snake expert at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. “I knew this was dangerous."įish are a regular part of the diet of many sea snakes, says John C. "I'm silly but not mad,” the spear fisherman, Rick Trippe, told BBC. He grabbed the animals out of the water for a quick picture, then released them. What is rare is for such encounters to be recorded.Īn Australian spear fisherman happened upon the sea snake/fish fight last Thursday off Darwin, in northern Australia. ![]() Photographs capturing a battle royale between what may be two of the ocean’s most venomous creatures-a sea snake and what is possibly a stonefish-have gone viral, but such face-offs probably aren't all that rare. ![]()
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