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. Do you like hiking in the jungle or the forest?? Has anything weird ever happened? Did you see a bear? Let me know in the comments below and be sure
to hit that subscribe button for more videos like these!! 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. Would you dare venture into the jungle after
hearing about these attacks? Let me know in the comments and thanks for
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