Mega-Snake

[zoobyshoe]

MSNBC - 49-foot python captured in Indonesia
Address:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3845750/

[Monique]

They feed it 5 full grown dogs a month [o)]

[fish]

holy cow! it has a diameter of 2.8 feet
I wonder how old it is?
here are some more pics of it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3356945.stm

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...I'm being swallowed by a boa-constrictor,
And I don't like it one little bit....

[zoobyshoe]

Thanks for those additional pictures, fish. This is an amazing reptile, indeed.

[Monique]

The amazing thing is that they only captured it a year ago, it used to be out in the jungle hunting..

[Andy]

I read about this a few days ago in one of britains tabloid newspapers but thought it was a joke!

Are there any better pictures out there that give a better representation of scale? Just how big is its head? I figure it must be about the size of a crocodiles head, well almost.

I have just done a quick search on google and only found the same pictures, will just have to travel to Indonesia to find out myself!

[Monique]

Originally posted by fish
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3356945.stm
I thought those were pretty good?

[zoobyshoe]

Originally posted by Andy I have just done a quick search on google and only found the same pictures, will just have to travel to Indonesia to find out myself!
Bring a camera, and put the pictures where we can get to them. I'd be interested in seeing some better photos as well.

[Andy]

Origionally Posted By Monique
I thought those were pretty good?

Yea those Pics where quite good, but i would like to see somebody standing next to its head or something, or even better get steve irwin to dangle his baby in front of it. lol [6)]

[fish]

Here's an update on the snake's length

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1116074,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1021931.htm

[Monique]

When a recreation park in Indonesia put a huge reticulated python on show last week, keepers insisted to reporters it was 15 metres long.

That made it the longest ever caught.

But amid growing scepticism of the claim, a photographer working for Reuters returned to the Curugsewu park in the small central Java town of Kendal on Wednesday with a measuring tape.

The snake's true length - around 6.5 metres.
Starts to sound like a publicity stunt??

[nautica]

Originally posted by Monique
Starts to sound like a publicity stunt??

No, people don't do things like that. The snake must have shrunk 8.5 meters or maybe it was originally measured in feet and they were not good with conversions.

Nautica