On December 7, 2014, Discovery Channel was ready to show a 20-foot anaconda devour conservationist Paul Rosolie whole. The special was titled Eaten Alive, which certainly made it seem like Rosolie would end up in the belly of the beast. The idea was that Rosolie would wear a protective carbon-fiber suit, slather himself in pig blood, and let the snake him and then regurgitate him. Rosolie claimed the point of the stunt was to bring attention to habitat loss in the Amazon. “I’ve seen firsthand how the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed,” he said, per Deadline. “It is so rampant that we may be the last generation with the opportunity to save it. People need to wake up to what is going on. What better way is there to shock people than to put my life on the line with the largest snake on the planet, the green anaconda?” Discovery was...