#6. Python Kills Careless Student in Venezuela
Working alone on the nightshift in a zoo, alongside many deadly predators, can obviously be potentially dangerous. It can also get fairly uneventful after a while. At least that’s what Erick Arrieta, a zookeeper who broke the establishment’s rules by entering one of their cages, thought.
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A ten-foot Burmese Python, which had just recently been donated to the Caracas Zoo in Venezuela, was the cause of the twenty-nine-year-old biology student’s untimely death.
The snake was still quite new to the habitat, and not even yet on public display at the zoo. Erick foolishly broke one of the most important rules enforced by the zoo when he entered the serpent’s cage, ultimately costing him his life.
Since he was the only one on duty in the area for the shift, nobody heard his screams or yells for help when the snake began to attack. The snake had the employee to himself for some time until the incident was discovered by his coworkers.
By that time, the python had already crushed and strangled Erick to death, and was in the process of consuming him. As the ten-foot snake was actively swallowing the head of its kill, Erick’s fellow employees had to intervene and beat the python to free his lifeless corpse from it.
Though the attack was surprising because Erick was far beyond the ideal size to serve as prey to the mere ten-foot snake, it was not a complete shock because Burmese Pythons are the most aggressive of large constrictor snakes.
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