55 Feet Snake found in Forest of Malaysia.
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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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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