Man allowed himself to be ‘eaten alive’ by an anaconda, new Discovery documentary says
An author and wildlife filmmaker purportedly allowed himself to be swallowed alive by an anaconda in the Amazon rainforest, according to a new Discovery Channel documentary.
Paul Rosolie, who has written extensively about the western Amazon, is seen dressed in “snake-proof” body armour as he approaches the giant snake in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary Eaten Alive.
“We’re going to make me as appealing as possible so the snake just says, ‘Well, I’ve got this big thing here, so I might as well get a free meal,'” Mr. Rosolie says in the video.
In its billing for the new show, Discovery said the man entered “the belly” of the snake. And judging from his active Twitter account, Mr. Rosolie survived the encounter.
“If u know me — I would never hurt a living thing,” he wrote in a Tweet Tuesday. “You’ll have to watch #EatenAlive to find out how it goes down!”
But one herpetologist dismissed the claim that he was eaten alive as “nonsense.”
“Not possible,” Frank Indiviglio, who worked with the Bronx Zoo for two decades, told Business Insider.
“Discovery has taken a real nosedive in recent years; more nonsense,” he said later on Twitter — an apparent dig at some of the channel’s recent documentaries that have been largely discredited as fiction. For example, its 2013 Shark Week documentary, which claimed an ancient shark species wasn’t actually extinct, continues to be slammed by marine biologists.
A call to the Discovery Channel went unreturned Thursday morning.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...ake-proof-suit-let-an-anaconda-eat-him-alive/
An author and wildlife filmmaker purportedly allowed himself to be swallowed alive by an anaconda in the Amazon rainforest, according to a new Discovery Channel documentary.
Paul Rosolie, who has written extensively about the western Amazon, is seen dressed in “snake-proof” body armour as he approaches the giant snake in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary Eaten Alive.
“We’re going to make me as appealing as possible so the snake just says, ‘Well, I’ve got this big thing here, so I might as well get a free meal,'” Mr. Rosolie says in the video.
In its billing for the new show, Discovery said the man entered “the belly” of the snake. And judging from his active Twitter account, Mr. Rosolie survived the encounter.
“If u know me — I would never hurt a living thing,” he wrote in a Tweet Tuesday. “You’ll have to watch #EatenAlive to find out how it goes down!”
But one herpetologist dismissed the claim that he was eaten alive as “nonsense.”
“Not possible,” Frank Indiviglio, who worked with the Bronx Zoo for two decades, told Business Insider.
“Discovery has taken a real nosedive in recent years; more nonsense,” he said later on Twitter — an apparent dig at some of the channel’s recent documentaries that have been largely discredited as fiction. For example, its 2013 Shark Week documentary, which claimed an ancient shark species wasn’t actually extinct, continues to be slammed by marine biologists.
A call to the Discovery Channel went unreturned Thursday morning.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/1...ake-proof-suit-let-an-anaconda-eat-him-alive/
