THE show was called Eaten Alive and that's what viewers were expecting.
Now the US audience has taken to Twitter to express mock outrage after wildlife expert Paul Rosolie was forced to call off his controversial anaconda experiment halfway through.
Earlier viewers tuned in to watch Rosolie conduct his world-first experiment, where he presented himself as prey to the snake in the Amazon after putting on a special reinforced suit with helmet and devices to measure his vital signs.
Rosolie and his team found an anaconda weighing 180 kilograms while hiking in the Peruvian rainforest and the feat was streamed on the Discovery Channel’s website.
The footage showed Rosolie feeding himself to the anaconda head-first as his colleagues looked on. He was wearing a carbon fibre suit and poured pigs’ blood over himself before imitating the snake’s normal prey to attract its attention and get it to eat him.
“I didn’t want to stress [the anaconda] out too much,” he said.
“I wanted to make sure that the suit was smooth and wasn’t going to hurt the snake.
“I really wasn’t scared. We tested this suit and worked on this with experts so we knew I was going to be safe.”
Eaten alive ... Paul Rosolie wrestles with the anaconda. Source: Supplied
But after an hour of being constricted, Rosolie called time on the experiment, fearing he would be fatally crushed by the massive snake.
How Rosolie escaped the snake’s body before being crushed remains a mystery, although the special suit’s three-hour oxygen supply was crucial.
Incredibly, some viewers deemed his actions a cop-out, with one Twitter user even going so far as to accuse him of “failing America”.
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