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Showing mother nature who the real boss is, a 66-yr. old Brazilian man wrestled with an anaconda in order to save his 8-yr. grandson from being crushed to death.

Pereira jumped into the ravine and grappled with the snake, which started coiling around him as well.

“I started fighting the animal and tried to loosen its grip on the boy’s neck but the snake was too strong,” Pereira told the Bom Dia newspaper of Sao Jose do Rio Preto.

Pereira then attacked it with stones and a machete.

“I kept hitting it with the machete but it felt like a rubber tyre, it wouldn’t tear,” he said.

He killed it after a long struggle to free the boy, who needed 21 stitches on his chest where the snake bit him.

Insane! During times of immediacy which threaten the lives of loved ones, it’s amazing what adrenaline is capable of. Thanks Andre.