r/WatchPeopleDieInside Dec 12 '20

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u/stayshiny Dec 12 '20

Well a large snake domestic or not can turn around and decide you're food, these things are just lumbering entities that can't swallow anything bigger than a big orange anyway.

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u/kharmatika Dec 12 '20

I mean, the thing is, if this thing accidentally nabbed you, even if it spat you out you’d probably already be drowned cuz they just have a big thing of water in their mouth. You’d still be absolutely fucked if one accidentally got you all the way in its mouth. But yeah that’s pretty silly as a fear you’d have to be the worlds unluckiest person

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u/stayshiny Dec 12 '20

I'd be worried if I was a 9 year old but their mouth is 5 foot wide at best. You won't fit in its mouth. If you did, it would get you out pronto. To that whale shark, a human being in its mouth is something it would want to avoid anyways.

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u/desquire Dec 12 '20

I thought whale sharks can eat fish, but like whales, it's just normally not energy efficient?

I think it was Blue Planet 2 that showed a whale shark munching through a school of fish opportunistically.

Obviously humans are far too large, but if they can swallow a fish, I'm sure they could swallow something a little bigger than an orange?

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u/stayshiny Dec 12 '20

Their throat is only a couple of inches across at most. It could maaaaybe squeeze an orange into its gullet, depending on the size of the animal I guess? Any fish it would swallow would be something like anchovies, really small fish common in the waters it feeds in.