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The moment a daredevil was 'eaten alive' by a snake for a TV stunt - but now he faces ridicule for getting his safety team to save him after only his head was consumed
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- Paul Rosolie tracked down a 20ft-long green anaconda in South America
- The 27-year-old then donned black armored suit slathered in pig's blood
- As cameras rolled, he crawled on all fours toward snake, which pounced
- Animal coiled itself around his body, while clamping its jaws on his head
- As Mr Rosolie felt his arm 'start to break', he asked team to rescue him
- Only part of his head was inside snake when friends wrestled it off him
- On Sunday night, social media users were criticizing long-awaited stunt
- One wrote: 'Complete waste of my time, you didn't even get eaten alive'
- Airing followed protests from conservationists on both sides of Atlantic
- Mr Rosolie claims he did stunt to raise money to save snake's habitat
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Trapped in the snake's grip: In footage aired on the Discovery Channel on Sunday night, the 27-year-old and his 10-strong team tracked down the 18-and-a-half-stone snake, before letting it pounce and 'eat him'
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An American naturalist filmed himself being 'eaten alive' by a snake for a TV stunt - but is now facing ridicule for getting his safety team to save him after just part of his head was consumed.
In footage aired on the Discovery Channel on Sunday night, 27-year-old Paul Rosolie and his 10-strong team tracked down the 20ft-long, 18st anaconda to the headwaters of the Amazon river.
Donning a black armored suit, slathered in pig's blood, Mr Rosolie then moved tentatively 'on all fours' toward the enormous beast as the cameras rolled and his wife, Gowri, watched.
Seconds later, the female anaconda - one of the world's most fearsome creatures - pounced on its 5ft 9ins victim, latching on to his head, before constricting his arms and body.
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Somebody come!' However, as Mr Rosolie felt his arm 'start to break' under the anaconda's grip, he ordered his team of fellow naturalists, doctors and vets to save him - with just the top of his head in the snake's jaws
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In response to the complaints, Mr Rosolie has claimed that he carried out the risky move in a bid to raise money to save the snake's habitat in South America - and that the animal was not harmed.
'I wanted to do something to grab people’s attention to the plight of the disappearing rainforests, something completely crazy,' he said earlier this month. ‘Everything else has been tried.’
During the documentary, aired at 9pm, Mr Rosolie also explained how he had tracked down that particular snake after surviving being seized and dragged into deep water by it in 2008.
Since the incident, he had been 'obsessed' with capturing the beast, he said.
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