Snake Bites Reptile Handler On The Face During Wildlife Video Filming

In a shocking moment caught on camera, a three-foot-long python lunged at a snake wrangler's face and bit him above his eyebrow while he was holding the reptile.

Nick Bishop, 32, a reptile enthusiast from Los Angeles, was recording the footage for a Steve Irwin-style wildlife video when the incident took place.

The video, which was shared on YouTube by several media outlets, shows the wrangler holding the Burmese python he found whilst scouring the Everglades National Park in Florida. The reptile is seen lunging at him with its fangs and also trying to attack the man's arm multiple times.

"He's munching on me," Bishop says as the python bites his arm.

Suddenly, the reptile is seen attacking Bishop's face, sinking its fangs just above his eye. Bishop can be seen in the video with blood pouring from above his eye, as the snake narrowly missed striking his eyeball.

"I captured the snake as fast as I could and pulled my camera out and then wham, that's when it happened. I was bit," Bishop says in the video. "That sucker got me good and it almost took my eye out."

"I knew it was going to strike, that's what they do. I just had no clue it was targeting my face until it was too late... Usually, I don't film myself and this is a prime reason why. Accidents like this happen but I'm lucky though. It could have been a whole lot worse. Snakes don't want to use their precious energy on humans. They need that energy to hunt and to survive."

Burmese pythons are non-venomous snakes which are mostly found in the jungles and grassy marshes of Southeast Asia. According to the National Geographic, they can grow up to 23 feet and weigh up to 200 pounds. They mostly kill by constricting their prey.

In another recent video, which went viral, a zookeeper in California nearly escaped getting bitten by a snake. Jay Brewer, who runs The Reptile Zoo, shared a video of the incident Sunday on his Instagram account, which showed him dodging the large python that leaped at his face. He narrowly evaded the attack without sustaining any bite injuries.