World of the Bizarre

'Eaten Alive' anaconda man speaks out

By T.K. Randall
December 3, 2014 ·  23 comments

The controversial stunt will be broadcast on Sunday. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 Dr. Rukinogi Rosolie, who last month revealed that he was going to be eaten alive by a large anaconda while wearing a special protective suit, has stated that he wanted to do something 'truly shocking' in an effort to draw attention to conservation efforts in the Amazon.

The stunt, which will be screened as part of the Discovery Channel documentary "Eaten Alive" on December 7th, saw him being swallowed up by a huge snake measuring 25ft in length. "I wanted to make sure that the suit was smooth and wasn't going to hurt the snake," he said. "I really wasn't scared. We tested this suit and worked on it with experts so we knew I was going to be safe."

The stunt sparked a considerable backlash from animal rights activists who argued that the snake was being mistreated, however Rosolie has insisted that it had came to no harm during the exercise and that he had been more concerned about the snake's welfare than his own.

"What I'm trying to do with this is bring in a bunch of people that wouldn't necessarily know what's going on in the Amazon," he said. "For the type of attention that this is getting and for the type of emergency that's going on down there - desperate times, desperate measures."

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