There’s a sense of pure wonder about him.” “This is someone who has risked his life many times, and who has a genuine sense of being an explorer and discovering things and going into situations one doesn’t know how will end. “He was not the most traditional student, because he was always disappearing to the Amazon,” says Michael Edelstein, an environmental psychology professor at Ramapo who taught Rosolie. Paul Rosolie lives to tell his story of being eaten by an anaconda. What I’m trying to do with this is bring in a bunch of people that wouldn’t necessarily know what’s going on in the Amazon.ĪNACONDA SWALLOWS MAN: The suit that protects him inside the snake “Environmentalists, we love to preach to the choir. “I wanted to do something that would absolutely shock people,” says Rosolie, who is tall, dark-haired, bearded and well-spoken when it comes to his passion for the rainforest.
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Rosolie has been bitten by one of the snakes and seized by one in a chokehold - suffering a broken rib and a nearly popped collarbone before five people were able to pry it off him.īut none of that compares to what he endured in his first TV special, Eaten Alive, for the Discovery Channel, which documents Rosolie’s attempt to get ingested by a giant green anaconda - all in the name of bringing attention to the rapid destruction of the Amazon and, of course, spiking TV ratings, The New York Post reports. The giant reptile is known to grow to up to 30 feet (9.1 metres) in length - and strikes its prey using its teeth and powerful jaws before crushing it with its massive body. IN his nearly 10 years studying anacondas in the Amazon, researcher and conservationist Paul Rosolie, 27, has faced his share of danger.
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