Agta Negritos are indigenous people in Luzon who, in the 1970s, competed with areticulated phyton for their main sources of food namely Philippine deer, Philippine warty pigs and long-tailed macaques.

Thomas N. Headland, an anthropologist who lived with and studied the group, later found out that 15 of 58 men and 1 of 62 women were attacked by the giant snake. Worse, 6 of them were killed, one of whom was discovered within the snake’s belly after butchering.