Photo of that HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE snake!!! how cool

[radwriter0555]

is this big bad boy?

WOW!



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/snake_dc

KENDAL, Indonesia (Reuters) - A recreation park in Indonesia is displaying a 49-foot python -- making it the longest ever captured -- that was revered as a tribal ruler and has a huge appetite for dogs.

The huge, dark-colored male snake has a diameter of 2.8 feet, weighs 984 pounds and is 48 feet, 7 inches long, according to keepers of an animal exhibition at the Curugsewu park in the small Central Java town of Kendal. Snake handler Imam Darmanto told Reuters the nameless serpent likes to gulp down dogs. "This snake swallows up dogs. In a month, it can eat around five dogs," he said.

According to the Guinness World Records, the longest discovered snake was also a reticulated python from Indonesia. It was 33 feet long when found in Sulawesi island in 1912. Last year, Samantha, a snake measuring eight meters and which was dubbed the largest in captivity, died in the Bronx Zoo in New York. Samantha came from Indonesia's side of Borneo island.


Darmanto found the reticulated python last year on Sumatra island, where it had been caught and kept in captivity by villagers.


But it took months to get permission from the villagers, who revered the creature, to bring it to Java. "It was seen as the ruler of the Kubu tribe. So, we had to go by the book and the tourism authorities had to ask for it," Darmanto said.

The Kubu tribe live in the jungles of southern Sumatra and shun encounters with the modern world. The snake has tripled the number of visitors to the state-run park, normally known just for its scenery and waterfalls.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Good Lord!

That is one HUGE freakin' snake! :wow:

[ronnykmarshall]

2. That's one big ass snake!

[underpants]

3. Oh I thought you meant Ashcroft

:bounce:

[nini]

4. Nightmare alert!!

Mother of GOD!! That thing is one big Mother f'er.



:wow:

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

5. yiiiikes

:scared:

[diamond14]

6. How do you know it's a boy???? you said 'big bad BOY" nt

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[radwriter0555]

11. Typically, the males of a species are larger than the females...

so I'm assuming it's a boy.

I could be mistaken..

and poetically it sounded better to say "big bad boy' than "big bad girl..."

[Bertha Venation]

15. Hey! This big bad girl thinks "big bad girl" sounds fine!

;)

[drb]

7. That's interesting! It seems to bear a resemblance to...

...Karl Rove!

[readmylips]

8. oooh...I didn't want to look..

I won't sleep tonight. I hate snakes even in photos.

Remind me never to visit Indonesia. If they let that snake lose in NYC, it could eat up those chiguagua-size rats NYC breads.

[arcane1]

9. my god, that thing is beautiful....

not that I would want him cruising around my house (I have 2 cats!) but man that's a pretty snake!

I'm sure he knows it :)

[VelmaD]

12. I totally agree...

gorgeous animal.

[Dr. Wu]

10. Yeah, but you should see what I look like when I get out of the shower

[DBoon]

13. So when

Will Bush nominate him for a Supreme Court vacancy?

[Zuni]

14. Holy sh--

That is a monster! 'It eats up to 5 dogs a month'----I guess it would be best to keep small children away from this beasty.

[Dogmudgeon]

21. Five dogs a month!

How many cats would that be?

My guess is something like 20-25.

Maybe we can convince it change its diet. :-)

--bkl
Meow.

[Bertha Venation]

16. They should let it go.

JMHO

[terrya]

17. "That's some snake", Terry says running away fast...

I HATE snakes.

That one is beyond scary.

[blindpig]

18. really impressive but

it doesn't look as big as advertised to me. Probably a record, just not 50'. I've worked with snakes my whole life, they're like fish, never as big as you think.

[catzies]

19. But where are the badgers and the mushrooms?

I think I've seen that snake before...

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php

[beyurslf]

20. Does it only eat a few dogs a month or does it eat other things

as well? Just curious.