Do Burmese pythons eat humans?

While pythons can eat large prey, an adult man was long thought to be too big. ... In 2005 a Burmese python tried to swallow an alligator whole - it burst in the process and both died, their bodies later being found by Florida rangers. But these opportunistic hunters can be surprisingly picky too. read more

Pythons usually only constrict if they intend to eat the animal they are strangling. For defense, they typically bite or flee. Stories of adult humans being eaten by pythons are common, but most of these come from secondhand accounts and the truth cannot be verified. read more

While the python is more of a direct threat to native birds and animals than to people, attacks on humans are not unknown. One of the more horrifying instances occurred in 2009 when a 2-year-old girl in northern Florida was strangled by a Burmese python that belonged to her mother’s boyfriend. read more

Pythons often eat primates, including monkeys, sometimes orangutans and, seldom, people. Pythons bite first and would attack a human in two ways: 1. A startled snake could bite as a form of defense; 2. The python stealthily lies in wait along a game trail, edges of waterways or any other place where they would find unsuspecting prey. read more