I've been wrapped up in my comforter a little too tight and had trouble breathing.
Sorry that "Eaten Alive" guy didn't get eaten by a snake. Snakes respond instinctively, and humans do not seem to have been put on their evolutionarily determined menu. However, there are no documented cases of an anaconda eating a person. Hey can I have my own show? #EatenAlive /OLEZykn1sx An anaconda could eat a person, in the sense that they have been known to swallow prey at least as large as a human. Though this stunt was touted as a way to raise awareness about the Amazon and its biodiversity-including the anaconda-this wasn’t scientific in nature at all, and didn’t seek to benefit anyone except Discovery’s bottom line and Rosolie’s reputation.Ĭheck out some of the tweets sent in response to the show: The only way for Rosolie to have gotten out of the snake’s stomach would have been for the crew to kill the snake and cut him out. Though thousands of people took to Twitter to express outrage that there wasn’t a man eaten by an anaconda, it’s probably for the best. However, it appears that Rosolie wasn’t quite prepared for the reality of being constricted by an anaconda, and called in the crew to rescue him.ĭidn’t catch it last night? Save yourself two hours and see the anti-climactic end right here: Only then did the snake attack, biting and squeezing the armored intruder. What to do when you’ve hyped up a show this much and the star isn’t interested? Rather than making the decision to call the whole thing off, Rosolie decided to provoke the animal instead.
In fact, when Rosolie first made contact with the snake, it was afraid and tried to escape. Indeed, when the crew finally found the chosen snake, it really wasn’t interested in trying to eat a human dressed up like the Tinman. Though Discovery went through great lengths to design a suit that would protect the man against the snake’s fangs, compression, and stomach acid, they appeared to overlook one tiny detail: Rosolie didn’t look at all like something a giant anaconda might want to eat. The special features 27-year-old naturalist Paul Rosolie, who wore a “snake proof suit” and planned to live through getting swallowed by a 20-foot-long anaconda.Īnacondas of this size can easily eat large mammals like jaguars, deer, and pigs, so swallowing a human shouldn’t have been a problem. Discovery Channel has been pushing a special called Eaten Alive over the last month, and it finally aired last night.