Local government official Rachmat said the reticulated python measured 49 feet (14.85 meters) and weighed in at 985 pounds (447 kilograms ). The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest ever captured snake to be 32 feet (9.75 meters). The heaviest -- a Burmese Python kept in Gurnee, Illinois -- weighs 403 pounds (182.76 kilograms), the book said on its Web site. ************************************************** 01-02-04, 06:16 PM Kelleygirl I saw this story, DG. That's just incredible! In my former life, my ex had an eight foot Haitian boa constrictor and that was huge. I can't imagine a snake over 6 times its size in length. It probably eats cows for snacks.
01-02-04, 06:48 PM bedstor I saw it on the late news and it was massive Red Face I'd estimate the trunk thickness to be about the same size as the length of the keyboard on your computer Eek . I don't forget something like that easily Roll Eyes
01-04-04, 06:39 AM cyberlaol I saw I believe it was a Anaconda snake once swallow a small deer. They actually showed it on TV. I was fascinated and as well grossed out. I also saw a show about the Amazon where villagers believed either a Python or Anaconda lived in the water ad had a nasty habit of swallowing dogs whole, and told stories where people went missing. Gee I can't even think of such a thing without feeling a little squeamish
01-04-04, 12:09 PM DorianGreyed An Observation- Pythons are arboreal, tree snakes. 1000 pounds of snake in a tree is hard to imagine. Harder still is what this may mean in terms of water snakes like an anaconda. The water always holds the largest animals. There have been stories for years of 50' anacondas, even longer, but they have always been dismissed as being outrageous tales. Now, with the discovery of a tree snake almost 50', it almost follows that an anaconda could be at least a similar length, maybe longer, given the support of water.
01-04-04, 09:02 PM Minnesota Crap journalism like this really irks me:
Official: World's largest snake in Indonesia Monday, December 29, 2003 Posted: 1:58 PM EST (1858 GMT)
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49.21 feet (15 meters) long and weighs nearly 992.07 pounds (450 kilograms), a local official said Monday.
If confirmed, it would be the largest snake ever kept in captivity.
So, how can it be "official" if it hasn't been confirmed?. OR, why would it have to be confirmed if it's already official.
01-04-04, 09:44 PM Tree Tree snakes??? OMG!!
I have to tell you one thing - - I'm glad that I heard it here rather than SEEING it on the news! I dunno if I'd be able to sleep! YUCK!
Eek
01-09-04, 10:22 AM methos Minn. You were absolutely correct to be skeptical. A reporter from Guardian and a photographer from Reuters have now both visited the snake. They both measured the snake as between 21 and 23 feet and the Guardian reporter estimated its weight at 220 lbs. Big, sure, but not nearly a record breaker.
01-09-04, 09:46 PM coldfuse DG: I noticed that the story was at CNN. I turned up the speakers thinking I would hear the Bush bit in the background Big Grin
I wonder why officials, who had the snake and apparently displayed it at a zoo, couldn't make better guess as to its length. 21 - 23 feet is a far cry from nearly 50 feet - like a car compared to a bus.
01-09-04, 10:17 PM methos They claim it shrunk (sadly, I'm not kidding).
01-10-04, 02:47 AM DorianGreyed Needless to say, I am disappointed. I still think that someday, they will find an anaconda about that length, and probably over 1000 pounds.
01-10-04, 09:56 PM coldfuse LOL, methos! Truth is often funnier than made-up jokes.
DG, I'm thinking that sucker is out there myself. I have both a phobia and a fascination with snakes and would pay to see such a creature (preferably not from its inside).
01-10-04, 10:39 PM Tree <---- goose bumps all over my arms!!! Eek
08-12-04, 03:26 PM siddysid hey guys, I am new here, I think they might have done that because this new movie is coming on Anacondas, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid. If any of you has seen the trailer of this movie on TV. You may have seen where it says about Anacondas more than 50 feet long, over 1200 pounds and the most amazing this they say is that it travels at the speed of 500 feet/ second!!! Now it may sound rediculous but any of you who has seen this trailer would believe me. I was just wondering that in reality, there is a chance that a anaconda like they describe exist what about the speed, it is like they travel by the speed of the plane!
08-12-04, 06:16 PM DorianGreyed That must be some orchid ! Its scent was able to lure an anaconda from Central or South America, the anaconda's natural habitat, to Borneo, where the film was set. That's quite a swim, even for a 50' snake.
A speed of 500' a second works out to about 340 miles an hour, much faster than any living thing can travel. The fastest any animal has traveled is just over 200 mph in the case of a peregrine falcon in a hunting dive, or stoop.
The weight is, in my opinion, also wrong. As I said in a post above, anacondas are water snakes, and thus are more massive than pythons. An anaconda that was 50' long would probably have a diameter greater than 12" and a weight of more than 1000 pounds. In general, snakes are all muscle, and muscle is much heavier than fat.
Remember, Sid, it's a movie.
08-12-04, 08:42 PM jusork Welcome, Siddy.
quote:Originally posted by siddysid: I think they might have done that because this new movie is coming on Anacondas, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.
Actually, Anacondas is the sequel to the 1997 movie, Anaconda.
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the green anaconda is the heaviest snake at around 130kg (c 285lb) and the black mamba the fastest at a reputed 14-19km/h in short bursts (16 km/h is 10 mph ). The New York Zoological Society has a prize on offer to anyone proving the existence of a 9 metre anaconda but that had not been claimed. (Of course, parts of a snake move very fast. It's tongue, darting out to smell the world, will move a lot faster than 10 mph over a tiny distance. That may go some way to explaining the very high speed figure given i.e. that's an example of the use of special pleading or weasel words . No doubt a snake striking out at its prey moves its head faster than it ever moves its whole body, but that could never be so very much faster than the ground speed that it would approach the figures you give, particularly for what is, after all, one of the bulkiest snakes ).
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. No doubt a snake striking out at its prey moves its head faster than it ever moves its whole body, but that could never be so very much faster than the ground speed that it would approach the figures you give, particularly for what is, after all, one of the bulkiest snakes ).
