Paul Rosolie allowed himself to be eaten alive by a giant snake in a documentary for the Discovery Channel The Amazon boasts the world’s greatest variety of wildlife, but no one had ever seen anything quite like this. Gliding through the dense, waterlogged vegetation was a 20ft long, 18 ½ st green anaconda — one of the world’s most terrifying creatures. Moving tentatively towards it was a man on his hands and knees pretending to be a wild boar — clad head to toe in a black armoured suit slathered in pig’s blood. Paul Rosolie was on a terrifying mission: to be eaten alive by the biggest and mightiest snake on Earth.
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Paul Rosolie wanted to bring attention to the plight of the rainforest
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The 27-year-old allowed himself to be bitten and eaten by an anaconda
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Wore a crush-proof suit for experiment that was filmed for a documentary
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Stunt has been slammed by animal rights campaigners across the world
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Eaten Alive will be shown in America on the Discovery Channel on Sunday
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