he wouldn't have an advantage in the water so that's out of the question
he should make use of whatever he has in his current position which are himself, his clothes, the snake, the tree branch
As its unclear if the snake is a coiling snake (pyton) or one that is venemous, the steps with the highest chance of survival are:
- climb to an opposite branch
- use cloth from pants to restrict blood supply to his non-dominant hand
- use non-dominant hand to distract snake while trying to break the branch
- if successful in either breaking the branch or being able to lift the snake off from the branch, throw object at the lion
- immediately jump down and grab rilfe
- if rifle is loaded, shoot lion. then snake, then run from alligator
- if rifle is not loaded, well, he's screwed.
Interesting, thank you for your well explained comment.
I would get the snake, and throw it to the lion.
Jump down to get the gun , go back up and shoot pass the lion to scare him of.
He will most likely run away from the sound or the reaction of the bullet in the ground.
And the snake would crawl away and the crocodile wil get a good show to watch.
Thats what i would do :)