# Animals that can swallow whole humans

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-that-can-swallow-whole-humans/290484>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 17, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-that-can-swallow-whole-humans/290484 "2005-02-17T04:24:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-that-can-swallow-whole-humans/290484/21 "2014-01-28T16:55:28Z")

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Nm, zombie.

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**Author:** ![thevolleyballer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@thevolleyballer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thevolleyballer)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2023, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/animals-that-can-swallow-whole-humans/290484/24 "2023-11-04T07:17:26Z")

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I just stumbled onto this thread, but also these news stories happened \< 10 years ago. Knowledge is fun.

Python: [How a Python Ate a Woman Whole and Left Hardly a Trace of the Fierce Attack | Live Science](https://www.livescience.com/62855-python-eats-woman-in-indonesia.html)

I was sure I heard a legend of giant catfish in the bayous - here we go: [The Giant Catfish That Eats Humans - KnowledgeNuts](https://knowledgenuts.com/giant-catfish-that-eat-humans/)

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