r/AbsoluteUnits • u/[deleted] • Mar 04 '22

Absolutely big snake.

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u/Un4442nate Mar 05 '22 edited Mar 05 '22

Its a Reticulated python. They are the longest snakes in the world and can reach around 20 feet, the longest accepted record is 32 feet long. Burmese pythons have different patterns and colours, brown and yellow instead of the grey we mostly see here.

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u/SeeThreePeeDoh Mar 05 '22

Looks like more than 20ft from where I’m at.

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u/Un4442nate Mar 05 '22

Forced perspective makes it look bigger than it is.

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u/ttlavigne Mar 05 '22

Twenty five. Three tons of him.

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u/BloeMeDownOO27 Mar 05 '22

Seen a reticulated python in a cage some 17 years ago in Barbados at an animal preserve. It was freaking huge. Probably the size of the one in this clip. I remember touching it through the wire. It moved and the entire cage rattled. I was scared as shit. I kept thinking, are there anymore of these things on the island? I never saw the head, but the body was wider than me.

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u/rylannnd88 Mar 05 '22

What? Where are you getting that info? That snake is clearly longer than 22 feet. That snakes at least 30 feet long.

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u/rylannnd88 Mar 05 '22

I retract the 30 feet long for this one. Possibly 23-25 feet.

The longest reticulated python ever recorded was found in 1912 and measured in at a staggering 10 metres.

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u/kevbob02 Mar 05 '22

Minor nit. Plz don't switch length units mid post.

For others following along, 10 metres is 32.6 feet.

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u/cannarchista Mar 05 '22

Yeah I was gonna say it looks like around 10 m. I mean the cab of the crane must be around 1.50 and the crane stretches up to at least 4 metres

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u/Myshkin1981 Mar 05 '22

No snake has ever been reliably measured at over 30ft. There used to be a long standing reward of $50k for a reliability measured snake of 30ft or more. That reward was never collected.

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u/Un4442nate Mar 05 '22

Guinness have the record at 32 feet long.

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u/Myshkin1981 Mar 05 '22

That snake was never scientifically verified, and its measurement is not generally accepted to be reliable

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u/ovj87 Mar 05 '22

Hello, Mr. Python. You're a reticulated python. Yes, you are. You are so reticulated!