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A picture of a distended snake is one image that regularly makes the rounds of the Internet every few months or so, each time with a backstory updated to reflect a different geographic locale. This photo has been claimed to depict a serpent that ate a man in Qujing, China, in August 2012; gobbled up another person in Jakarta, Indonesia, in January 2013; swallowed a man whole in Panama in February 2013; swallowed a woman near Durban North, South Africa, in June 2013; then made its way to Pasir Gudang, Malaysia, to gulp down a 4-year-old child in October 2013, all before slithering off to India to chow down on a drunken man outside a liquor store in Attappadi, India, in November 2013: We don't know the specific origins of this image, nor exactly what might have created the bloated condition of the snake (presumably the serpent is distended from having consumed something relatively large, animal or otherwise), but clearly this one reptile — sometimes identified as a boa constrictor rather than a python — has not been traveling the world and hopping across continents in search of human prey to feast upon. Most likely the pictured snake had recently eaten a mid-sized animal such as a pig. (Since the snake in this photograph appears to be live and intact, there's no way to tell from the image alone what might be causing its distended appearance.) (The reticulated python is native to Southeast Asia and thus isn't found in countries such as South Africa, while the boa constrictor inhabits the Americas and the Caribbean and not Asia.)
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