Do pythons eat humans?

One of the deadliest creatures in the world, this would not represent the first time a python has eaten a human. In 2002, a 20ft python reportedly swallowed a ten-year-old boy whole in Durban, South Africa, in the first recorded man-eating incident for its species. 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. read more

Stories of adult humans being eaten by pythons are common, but most of these come from secondhand accounts and the truth cannot be verified. Doctored or misidentified photographs of pythons supposedly eating humans have periodically surfaced, but as of 2014, they have all been debunked. read more