Dowbrigade Loses Another Title

Posted on December 31, 2003 by glasscastle


World’s Biggest Snake Discovered in Indonesia

Its
a good thing Norma Yvonne is on vacation, far, far away from here, or
she wouldn’t go near the computer for a week just from seeing a snake
this
big on the screen. Honestly, she is so serpent-phobic that when
Honey the cat bounds through the window, proud as can be, with an innoculous
pencil-gauge garter snake, (which happens several times each summer)
she makes me
move
the bed,
turn
over the mattress, move the furniture, look under the rug, etc. for SEVERAL
DAYS merely on the irrational possibility that there is another one lurking
in the house somewhere.

Anyway, this here critter is supposedly WAY bigger than the previously
recorded Biggest Snake in the World, and more than twice as heavy. How
does something like this suddenly appear? Genetically enhanced escapee
from
some secret bio-lab, or a divinely delivered sign of the approaching
apocolpyse? You decide…

It’s a fussy eater, apparently. But when you are longer than a double-decker
bus, and weigh as much as six grown men, you can afford to be.Certainly, the
owners of a zoo in Indonesia haven’t been quibbling over the dietary needs
of an enormous python, which prefers to eat four fierce brown
dogs every month.

The snake, they claimed yesterday, is the longest and heaviest ever captured.
Doing so was no mean feat in itself. According to reports, it took 65 men and
the blessing of a tribal leader to snare it.

Officials at the zoo in Curugsewu, central Java, told the Republika newspaper
that the reticulated python is 49ft long and has a maximum body circumference
of almost three feet. It weighs, they say, 998lbs. The
Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest captured snake as a 32ft reticulated
python found on the Indonesian island of
Sulawesi in 1912. The heaviest is a 402 lb. Burmese python in Illinois,
US.

Republika quoted a keeper at the zoo, Rohmad, as saying that when the
unnamed snake was captured, in Jambi province on Sumatra in mid-2002,
it was 61 long. 12 feet reportedly had to be severed after a rotten deer
was found undigested in its stomach.

Reticulated pythons, found across south-east Asia, are considered the
longest snake species but adults usually measure only between three and
six metres long. They kill their prey by biting it, hanging on with their
100 teeth and then squeezing it to death by wrapping their bodies around
it.

from the
Guardian
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42 Responses to Dowbrigade Loses Another Title

  1. rochelle says:
    June 6, 2007 at 10:36 am

    wowers, thats a big snake. is it aggressive?

  2. Anonymous says:
    June 13, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    thats a big mother fuckin snake

  3. Anonymous says:
    June 16, 2007 at 3:40 pm

    wow

  4. kirky says:
    June 25, 2007 at 7:20 am

    that is nearly bigger than my knob

  5. vanwejim yahoo! says:
    July 27, 2007 at 3:47 am

    hi! i have seen the snake in bohol! it was so big that i believe it can swallow an average- built man in 5 minutes!

  6. jaan says:
    October 25, 2007 at 7:57 pm

    i cant belive such a big snake o God

  7. Anonymous says:
    December 5, 2007 at 11:21 am

    hi bob

  8. junrie says:
    April 7, 2008 at 10:19 pm

    hi i have seen a big snake too! in phililipine, bohol when i see the big snake it was big as a coconut tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! very big snake

  9. Paraiso Philippines - Tourism and Travel Guide says:
    May 14, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Ouch, I don’t like to hear that 🙁

    CM

  10. cindy says:
    May 29, 2008 at 11:43 am

    wow that is a very big snake i don’t ever want to see one in my life. i hate snakes they look so evil

  11. Jorge says:
    May 29, 2008 at 11:44 am

    what a big snike i want to have one that way i can scare my wife whe she gets mad at me

  12. Vargo says:
    July 12, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    Once on holiday we went to a zoo and the Reptiles section was closed off but i took a look around a cover sheet and i saw a snake had knotted itself to the branch of a tree and was swinging around, it was like 39ft long (can tell from how big the tree was).

  13. sayureisy says:
    July 15, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    i love that

  14. justin says:
    July 16, 2008 at 2:43 am

    I patted pronie last week on my trip was sooo cool

  15. Anonymous says:
    July 21, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    thats a big fuckin snake!!!!

  16. Monaliza says:
    July 28, 2008 at 5:52 am

    That is a very big phyton reptile.

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    September 5, 2008 at 8:02 am

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  19. Alissa says:
    October 10, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    thay can eat people.that is amazing

  20. Shratiez says:
    October 15, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    holy cow that is a big snake

  21. rothstein says:
    October 22, 2008 at 1:31 am

    very huge indeed

  22. eza says:
    November 9, 2008 at 10:17 am

    check my post on the biggest snake in Bohol named Prony.. whose more bigger? http://ezarooen.blogsome.com/2008/02/13/my-paradise-bohol/

  23. Amelinda says:
    February 4, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    I’m from Indonesia but I wasn’t there that time..I was in Germany…
    And I know that snake is soooo !@#$%$^&*() big!! I watched in on TV the snake was lying around and the dog was sitting in the corner of the cage sitting very scared..poor dog.. DX
    And I saw very many men carrying the snake and it was so loud…
    Anyways it was one of my biggest experience!!

    Wonder if it’s still alive?

  24. Anonymous says:
    February 5, 2009 at 4:31 am

    shit ka sa earth

  25. renz says:
    February 5, 2009 at 4:35 am

    tang ama yan ang laki naman ng ahas na yan

  26. yusseli says:
    March 2, 2009 at 9:53 pm

    SHET!!!! THATS A BIG ASS SNAKE

  27. bryn says:
    March 6, 2009 at 5:30 pm

    holy!!!!!

    i is huge

  28. Briony says:
    April 3, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Wow Thatz Big

    (i dnt think itz that big yall sould s33 ma mom lolz)

  29. Anonymous says:
    May 12, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    wow thats big

  30. Anonymous says:
    May 14, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    wow that is big!!

  31. Всеволод says:
    September 29, 2009 at 3:33 am

    Классно, вещь полезная!

  32. Артем says:
    October 8, 2009 at 7:20 am

    Познавательно, но не убедительно. Чего-то не хватает, а чего не пойму. Но, скажу прямо: – светлые и доброжелательные мысли.

  33. Константин says:
    October 26, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Можно и по этому вопросу, ведь только в споре может быть достигнута истина. 🙂

  34. Junior Francklin says:
    November 2, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    I only see these snake in film

  35. Екатерина says:
    November 8, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Да уж… Жизнь – как вождение велосипеда. Чтобы сохранить равновесие, ты должен двигаться.

  36. Анастасия says:
    November 10, 2009 at 10:11 pm

    Можно и по этому вопросу, ведь только в споре может быть достигнута истина. 🙂

  37. Дмитрий says:
    November 13, 2009 at 6:22 am

    Материал на пять с плюсом. Но есть и минус! У меня скорость интернета 56кб/сек. Страница грузилась около 40 секунд.

  38. Берта says:
    November 17, 2009 at 9:09 am

    Уж тоже Вам спасибо скажу

  39. apaw......saiha says:
    June 2, 2010 at 10:04 am

    wat…the heck……..

  41. keith says:
    October 22, 2010 at 6:56 am

    i got 1 inna mi backyard

  42. Kristal says:
    January 20, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    I want one…I love snakes and I’ve always wanted a really really big one.

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