Pythons can kill its prey in minutes and swallow them in an hour, including humans.

Watching an episode of Yellowstone is the length of time needed for a reticulated python to kill and devour a human being.

Reticulated pythons are the longest living species of snake in the world. They are constrictors. It means they coil around their prey and squeeze them until they're dead in just a couple minutes.

The swallowing takes most of the time.

Watching it happens in movies is such a nerve wracking experience but such a nightmare occurred when a 23-foot reticulated python swallowed whole an Indonesian farmer.

CBS News reported villagers said Akbar was attacked from behind.

Unfortunately humans fit into the general mammal-heavy diet of the reticulated python, which can grow between 20 and 25 feet long.

The Guinness World Records notes a reticulated python named Medusa, which lives in Kansas City, Mo., holds the title as the world's largest snake ever in captivity at over 25-feet long.

Pythons often eat primates, including monkeys, sometimes orangutans and, seldom, people.

Pythons bite first and would attack a human in two ways:

1. A startled snake could bite as a form of defense;

2. The python stealthily lies in wait along a game trail, edges of waterways or any other place where they would find unsuspecting prey.

Reticulated pythons bite first. Then within a few seconds it would wrap its powerful coils around a person's body, cutting off blood circulation to the brain, blocking off airways and preventing the chest from expanding. From one or all of those reasons a prey would quickly die same goes to its human prey.

Big pythons are incredibly powerful animals with huge muscles to both move and eat and constrict. They certainly can pack a huge force as they're constricting.

Then comes the swallowing.

Pythons can swallow humans because their lower jaw is indirectly attached to their skull, allowing it to expand. Also, a python's lower jaw comes apart, allowing it to further open up. Over the course of about an hour, the snake would walk its teeth over a person's body until it is completely inside the animal's stomach.

A person's body would be digested by the snake's stomach acid.

A research study found reticulated pythons killed at least six Filipino hunter-gatherers from 1934 to 1973. A python went into a thatched house, killed two children and was swallowing one of them when the father came home and killed the snake with a bolo knife.

The study found it was pretty common for humans to be attacked by reticulated pythons. Among the nearly 60 hunter-gatherers interviewed, more than a quarter had been attacked by a python and had the bites and scars to prove it. Most often, they were able to escape by using a knife or a shotgun.

The case of Akbar is special because there's video evidence of his body being pulled from the snake. We don't hear about people being eaten because pythons rarely leave a carcass as a trace. The animals can digest flesh and bones.