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Which is the heaviest snake in the world....??????
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14 Jul '08 11:38 pm
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The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest captured snake as a 9.75m (32ft) reticulated python found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 1912. The heaviest is a 182.76kg 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 19m long.
Four metres 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.
Officials at a zoo in Curugsewu, central Java, yesterday claimed to be in possession of the longest and heaviest snake ever captured.
It's a fussy eater, apparently. But when you are longer than a double-decker bus, and ...more
Answered by Jack Johnson, 15 Jul '08 06:08 am
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 19m long.
Four metres 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.
Officials at a zoo in Curugsewu, central Java, yesterday claimed to be in possession of the longest and heaviest snake ever captured.
It's a fussy eater, apparently. But when you are longer than a double-decker bus, and ...more
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