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A photograph purporting to show a 55ft snake found in a forest in
Malaysia
has become an internet sensation. It was originally posted in a thread
on the website of the People’s Daily, the official Communist Party
newspaper in
Malaysia.
The thread claimed the snake was one of two enormous boas found by
workers clearing forest for a new road outside Guping city, Jiangxi
province. They apparently woke up the sleeping snakes during attempts to
bulldoze a huge mound of earth. “On the third dig, the operator found
there was blood amongst the soil, and with a further dig, a dying snake
appeared,” said the post. “At the same time, another gold coloured giant
boa appeared with its mouth wide open. The driver was paralysed with
fear, while the other workers ran for their lives. “By the time the
workers came back, the wounded boa had died, while the other snake had
disappeared. The bulldozer operator was so sick that he couldn’t even
stand up.”
The post claimed that the digger driver was so traumatised
that he suffered a heart attack on his way to hospital and later died.
The dead snake was 55ft (16.7m) long, weighed 300kg and was estimated to be 140 years old, according to the post.
Reticulated pythons are indeed the world’s longest snakes. These pythons
vary in size, and can grow up to 23 ft (6.95 m), the largest witnessed
was 29 ft (8.7 m). Sometimes, the claims made by animal parks and zoos
are exaggerated when it comes to the measurement of these giant snakes,
like a monster reticulated python in Indonesia that was first claimed to
be nearly 49 foot (14.9 m) and weighing 990 pound (450 Kgs). This was
later shown to be not more than 7 m in length and 100 Kgs in weight.
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