An audacious American wildlife scientist has embarked on a perilous endeavor, capturing an extraordinary video: willingly being engulfed by a colossal python in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
During the recent summer, Paul Rosolie meticulously planned a televised spectacle scheduled to air on the Discovery Channel this Sunday. Clad in a specially designed carbon fiber suit, Rosolie orchestrated a scripted sequence, allowing a nearly 8-meter-long anaconda weighing approximately 180 kilograms to consume him.
The innovative suit, fortified with carbon fiber, serves as a safeguard against the python’s constriction and digestive acids. It features a three-hour oxygen supply, communication devices, and an array of cameras. Rosolie expressed his unwavering confidence in the suit’s design, ensuring his personal safety, while expressing concerns for the well-being of the python reluctantly participating in the program, emphasizing its preservation over his own life.
“I don’t want to overstress the python, I want to make sure the outfit is smooth and won’t hurt the animal. I’m really not scared. We tested this outfit and perfected it with the experts so we know I’ll be fine,” he said.
With the opinion of animal rights defenders that the team “tortured” the python by forcing it to eat Rosolie, a ɱaп whose size is larger than the normal size of prey, Rosolie believes that the python The python was unharmed and this experiment was aimed at raising funds to protect the animal’s habitat.
“I wanted to do something that was absolutely shocking to people… What I was trying to do was introduce a lot of people who didn’t know what happened in the Amazon,” he said.
Rosolie, a native of New Jersey, first came to the Amazon at the age of 18, spent 60 days living in the rainforest of Peru with a team of about 12 people searching for the right anaconda for the task. As ᴛι̇ɱe was running out, the crew encountered a female python that Rosolie had first seen in 2008.
According to Rosolie, it took 12 people in the water to catch the python. A herpetologist was also present at the site to ensure the python was in good health during its “detainment”.
To attract the attention of the python, Rosolie, after wearing the costume above, dipped herself in pig blood and simulated the movements of anaconda’s prey: wild boar, mouse and reptile like crocodile. Before starting this mission, Rosolie took a pill to transmit biological signals to teammates.
In addition, in the process of searching for suitable pythons in the forest, the team also made records of anacondas in the wild, including the weight, length, and sex of each python family. meet.
In addition, the team also took python skin samples to test for levels of mercury, a by-product of the gold mining industry that is encroaching on these creatures’ habitats. Sunday’s special program will raise funds to save the habitat of this species.
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