Random Photos Show What It's Like To Be Swallowed Whole By An Anaconda (15 items)

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  (#5) The Jaw Walk

  If mother nature is two things, she's scary and gross. No fact underscores that idea like the anaconda's "jaw walk." When the prey is caught, the snake "walks" its jaws over its prey, working the animal down its esophagus. Like other snakes, the anaconda's lower jaws are not fused together, allowing them to move independently of each other and stretch out, working around prey that is much larger than the anaconda's head.

  If you've ever watched someone win a hot dog eating contest then you know what this abomination looks like. Or, if that's not enough of a gross visual, imagine someone eating a never ending Twizzler without using their hands. 
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  (#3) You Take A Few Weeks To Digest

  If you do get eaten you won't have to deal with a roommate in the snake's stomach because they can only eat one thing at a time. Snake expert Bryan Fry, a professor at the University of Queensland, has spent a lifetime studying these apex predators, and it's likely that he's actually watched an anaconda digest its prey. Fry says, "The python in Queensland will bloat further over the next few days as it digests.

  In two weeks it will start to slim down and in three weeks it will defecate a calcium ball, having absorbed the fat and protein, but not the excess minerals." At least you'll have some alone time. 
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  (#6) Enzymes Digest You Fully

  After the anaconda eats you, its body passes you through multiple areas where you'll be broken down and turned into snake fuel. All of the enzymes and gastric juices slowly digest the prey, which passes into the small intestine. Then the liver and pancreas excrete and secrete powerful enzymes into the small intestine to aid the digestive process.

  The nutrients from the meal are absorbed in the small intestine.
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  (#14) You're Most Likely To Get Eaten At Specific Times

  You'll probably be safe enough in the wild swampy areas anacondas tend to inhabit if you venture there in the daytime. Indeed, the large snakes typically prefer to hunt and travel in the early evening or at night. The cover of darkness helps them stalk prey more efficiently and their camouflaged skin blends perfectly with river marshes.

  You can also feel relatively protected if you venture into anaconda territory during the dry season; they tend to bury themselves in mud to escape the heat.
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  (#1) They Let You Kill Yourself

  The one thing that everyone knows (or thinks they know) about being eaten by an anaconda is that the giant snakes constrict your body until you finally give up, but it isn't actually squeezing the life out of you. As a python wraps itself around its prey, it's not squeezing the air out of it but waiting for it to exhale and then tightening the coil, gradually restricting the prey's breath.

  Anaconda's can't actually reach in and pull the breath out of your body, but they're the most patient predators on earth and don't mind letting you choose how long you want to put off the pain of your final terrible moments. 
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  (#8) At Best You Could Drown

  There's a very good chance that if you're in the position to be killed and eaten by an anaconda that you're in the anaconda's natural habitat. Since anacondas typically constrict their prey in the water, drowning is a common cause of death. Which makes sense, if you're traipsing around a shallow pool of water and you become entangled in an anaconda's body, you're not exactly going to be able to control which way you're facing.

  Which is the worse death, drowning face down in a muddy puddle while being constricted by a large snake, or having a wet head, but clean lungs while a snake waits for you to slowly die?

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