The books aren’t entirely wrong, but compared to reality, that method is by no means a sure way to kill the Titan python, being able to crawl into the belly of the snake and survive is extremely rare, with only about a fifty percent chance of success. In popular TV shows, when the main character becomes prey to a giant python or snake, that method seems very effective, but is it really so? When pythons or snakes hunt, they usually coil around their victims until they’re dead before swallowing them. True, this python weighs more than a ton, but it’s long like a sewer pipe rather than being especially thick. Ethan wouldn’t survive crawling into the belly of the Titan python either, the crushing force, stomach acids, and lack of oxygen alone would be enough to kill him, so how could he eve

