From a python selfie gone wrong to a brutal jungle massacre of British tourists, here
are ten of the most unbelievable jungle attacks – by both animals and humans!
10: Python Selfie Gone Wrong A forest ranger tried to take a selfie with
a python.
It didn't really work the way he had planned.
He was nearly strangled to death while trying to pose for a picture with the wild animal.
It all happened when Sanjay Dutta was called to a small village in West Bengal to take
care of a massive Indian rock python that had swallowed a goat near a school.
Initial estimates placed the snake at being around 30 feet long, which is actually preposterous
for a snake of this kind.
It was more likely around 25 feet.
Sanjay was able to wrangle the snake easily enough.
However, instead of putting it in his snake bag, he draped the serpent around his neck
to pose for a bunch of photographs.
The snake was not interested in posing.
Seconds after busting out his smartphone, the snake began to strangle him.
It wrapped one of its coils around his neck and began to squeeze the life out of him.
He was only able to get himself free because of the nearby villagers who saw he was having
a bit of a hard time.
They freed the snake and Sanjay walked away with his life.
As you may already know, Indian rock pythons are massive, non-venomous snakes that kill
their prey via constriction.
They normally strangle their prey to death before swallowing their victim headfirst.
9: Narrowly Escaping a Tiger A couple of forest rangers, also in India,
miraculously escaped being ambushed by an angry tiger while riding their scooter through
the jungle.
The forest rangers just barely escaped with their lives.
They were riding along the Karnataka and Kerala border and filming the scenery as they went
when out of nowhere a tiger burst through the jungle foliage and began speeding down
the path behind the riders.
The guy in front hit the gas as and they shot off as quick as the scooter would go, and
the tiger was just inches from swiping the guys off their vehicle.
It was trying to get close enough to leap through the air and tackle the men into the
bushes.
Luckily for them, the tiger didn’t prove fast enough.
Because they had already been recording the scenery, they managed to get the entire incident
on video – and the footage is nothing short of heart stopping.
It's not clear exactly where the tiger came from.
It literally came charging out of the forest as if it had just been passing by and spotted
an easy meal.
The men didn't stop to see what became of the huge cat, but chances are it ran back
into the jungle and went to go hunt for something else.
8: Devil’s Garden Ants In the jungle, there's a war going on between
ants and plants.
Believe me, it's a lot more dramatic than you may think.
Biologist Deborah M. Gordon from Stanford University identified an ant species that
creates its own special herbicide to poison plants it doesn't like.
The identification was the result of a study that went on for four years.
This was in the Amazon jungle of Peru.
Researchers were focused on specific areas known as the Devil’s Garden, where massive
patches of vegetation have been randomly disappearing for unknown reasons.
Inside the Devil’s Garden (there are a few different patches of forest that go by the
same name), all the trees are of a single species.
All other trees have been wiped out.
Local legends claim the patches were cultivated by an evil forest spirit.
However, scientists discovered it wasn't a spirit that got rid of all the plants, it
was an ant attack.
As you probably know already, the rainforest is a diverse place filled with thousands and
thousands of different trees and plants.
But in the Devil’s Garden patches, there is no diversity.
It turns out a special kind of ant called Myrmelachista schumanni poisons every plant
in the area except for the ones the colony lives in using a type of formic acid, which
it produces naturally.
Worker ants bite small holes in the leaf tissue, stuff their abdomen into the holes, then release
the acid to slowly kill the plant.
They do this with all the plants they don't like until they have the perfect environment
for themselves, in which a colony can live for up to 800 years in complete peace.
7: The Jungle Massacre One of the most brutal attacks in the history
of the jungle happened to 8 Western tourists in Uganda back in 1999.
4 British tourists, one American couple, and two New Zealanders were ambushed while in
the middle of a jungle safari.
They were trekking through the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest looking for rare mountain gorillas
when from out of nowhere, a band of rebels armed with automatic rifles and spears emerged
from the jungle and attacked!
Four Ugandan park employees were slain and a group of tourists were kidnapped.
The rebels were part of the ethnic Hutu group – militiamen who had carried out brutal
mass killings in Rwanda back in 1994.
The full group of tourists counted 31, up against 150 soldiers armed to the teeth.
The soldiers purposely took British and Americans and left behind the others.
Many survived, but the 8 chosen victims weren’t so lucky.
The American couple who was killed had been on their honeymoon.
They decided to spend the days after their marriage vacationing through Africa.
Well, they were hacked apart with machetes!
One of the British tourists killed was Mark Lindgren, a 23-yea-rold graduate from Nottingham
University on a tour of Africa before he started his career.
He too was bludgeoned to death with primitive weapons and left to rot in the jungle.
At the end of this horrifying day, most of the tourists managed to escape with their
lives and the rebels vanished back into the woods.
Not a lot of travelers went into the Ugandan jungle after this.
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6: The Crocodile & the Tourist A British tourist visiting Sri Lanka got into
a bit of trouble with a crocodile.
A crocodile has got to be the worst enemy to make while on vacation.
The tourist’s name was Paul McClean, a journalist only 24 years old who worked as a reporter
for the Financial Times in Britain.
According to Newsweek, he was on holiday taking surfing lessons.
Unfortunately for Paul, surfing lessons turned to bloodshed.
His corpse was found by divers about 225 miles from the capital of Colombo in a mud lagoon
near the coastal village of Panama.
Official police reports say he had suffered six or seven wounds to his right leg and that
his body was found stuck in the mud.
The lagoon is near a popular surfing spot called Elephant Rock.
Not only can tourists hit some serious waves here, they can also see elephants and crocodiles
in the wild.
Paul had been washing his hands in the river at the very edge of the jungle when a crocodile
came out of nowhere, shot out of the water like a rocket with teeth, and then dragged
the poor kid into the lagoon and bit him to death.
Now, let this be a lesson to everyone who goes into the jungle: if you’re going to
wash your hands, don’t do it alone in a river known to be filled with crocs!
5: Rampaging Gorilla A group of tourists looking at silverback
gorillas in Rwanda got a little more than they bargained for when one of the gorillas
freaked out and went on a savage rampage!
The tourists had been sitting calmly and watching the apes eat.
Then at some point, one of the gorillas decided it didn't really like the tourists watching
it chow down.
It charged at the guests and they tried to scatter.
But they weren't fast enough.
The giant ape managed to swipe aside two tourists and their guide, knocking them to the forest
floor.
Everyone else was cowering in the bushes and trying not to be noticed by the angry ape.
The only thing that stopped the gorilla from bludgeoning every last tourist to death was
the brave guide, who managed to get between the gorilla and the tourists and calm the
beast down.
The gorilla then just kind of hobbled away, sat down, and kept on eating.
The tourists swiftly made their escape.
To be honest, this situation could have been significantly worse.
The male gorilla weighed about 420 pounds.
It had such strength that it could easily have ripped off the tourists’ arms and then
beat them with their own appendages!
After all, how would you feel if a bunch of monkeys snuck into your kitchen and watched
you and your family eat while snapping pictures?
4: Swallowed by a Python A woman in Indonesia found herself on the
wrong side of a snake’s belly.
And by that, I mean she found herself inside the snake's belly.
She had been checking on her cornfields near the border of the jungle when she went missing.
Her name was Wa Tiba and she lived on Muna Island, basically in the middle of nowhere.
Her cornfield was located roughly half a mile from her home.
At the time, she hadn't been worried about being attacked by a reticulated forest python,
even though they are very common in the region.
People are just kind of used to these snakes.
They don't generally go attacking humans.
The woman was instead worried about the local boars that had been destroying her crops.
Wa Tiba never returned home from her cornfield.
Her family eventually got worried and went out looking for her.
They discovered the woman's footprints, her slippers, and her machete.
The next day, 100 villagers searched the area in the daylight and discovered a massive python
hanging out in the jungle, about 23 feet in length.
The snake had a swollen belly, looking as if it had just eaten a very large meal.
Hoping against hope, the villagers cut the snake open.
But unfortunately, the woman they found curled and sticky inside of the snake's guts was
already dead.
She probably hadn't died inside the snake.
Instead, it's likely she had been strangled to death by the snake first, then gulped into
its belly.
3: Elephant Kidnapper In a jungle in Thailand, an elephant murdered
its keeper and then kidnapped a family of tourists.
The incident happened during a jungle tour in the northern city of Chiang Mai.
As a bit of background, Thailand has been using elephants as a major tourist attraction
for years, but the practice has been coming under fire recently because elephants are
often mistreated and having people ride on their backs is actually very bad for the animals.
In the middle of the jungle tour, the elephant went berserk.
It attacked and killed the keeper who was riding on its neck and then ran off into the
trees, taking the three tourists with it, who were sitting inside a small basket on
the elephant’s back.
The tourists didn't know what to do.
The elephant was literally on a rampage and they were holding on for dear life, just hoping
they wouldn't fall out of the basket and be trampled on by the angry beast.
The tourists were rescued soon enough when other elephant keepers tracked them down and
calmed the animal.
Apparently, the keeper had been new and the elephant hadn’t liked him, and that’s
what caused its deadly rampage.
2: Drunk Monkeys Speaking of violent and out-of-control animals
in Thailand attacking tourists in the jungle, a pack of drunk monkeys was caught torturing
a group of friends on holiday.
The macaques were stealing alcohol at the secluded Yong Gasem Bay, a place only accessible
via boat.
Visitors here are informed that the animals are friendly.
However, this day they weren't.
Nobody is exactly sure how the monkeys got their grubby paws on the booze.
They probably stole it from one of the nearby bars.
But regardless of how they came across the alcohol, they showed up wasted, jumping out
of the jungle and attacking every tourist in sight.
Video footage of the incident revealed the monkeys literally chasing a terrified woman
through the sand until she eventually fell over and did a faceplant.
The monkeys had to be chased off before they did horrible things to her!
They continued attacking throughout the day, just being generally horrible and ruining
everyone’s good time.
They finally went away in the night, probably when the alcohol wore off and they ran out
of energy and aggression.
1: Hacked to Death Two guides in Papua New Guinea were attacked
in the jungle while trekking with a group of tourists from Australia and New Zealand.
This is one of the remotest places in the world, and the guides were taking the tourists
through an even more remote jungle trail.
And that was when six bandits jumped out of the jungle, brandishing machetes and spears
and demanding cash.
Even in the wildest and remotest jungles of the farthest corner of the Earth, there are
still guys with knives waiting to take your money.
Luckily for the tourists, the bandits spared their lives.
Instead, they turned their anger on the local guides and killed them!
It's likely that the bandits wanted to send a warning to the outside world to keep foreign
tourists out of the area.
The best way to do this appeared to be by hacking apart the guides with machetes to
scare everyone senseless.
Also, one of the Australian tourists took a spear through the leg – and yeah, if someone
speared me through the leg, chances are I would never visit that place again and I would
tell all my friends to stay away.
The jungle trek the tourists were on spans only three days and goes through one of the
most dangerous routes in the whole of Papua New Guinea.
When the trek is over, there's a high probability to have some kind of infection, to be covered
in leeches, and to maybe even have gotten malaria from a mosquito.
And now, tourists can add a spear through the leg to the list of potential dangers.
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