The size of the Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)

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Hello Richardrli. In fact, if you see the documentary, the anaconda measured by Dr Barr was of 5.5 m in camera. This was confirmed by Dr Rivas in the same document that present the corrected figure of 4.3 m taken a week latter. Here is the source:
http://www.anacondas.org/measuring.pdf

Pg. 3: "An error of two or three feet does not seem to be out of the question when measuring a snake that measures, say, more than 20 feet in length. Anecdotally, we may point out that in 2003 an anaconda was measured by a well-known herpetologist to be 5.5 meters long in the llanos of Venezuela. However, the following week we had the opportunity to measure the same snake, and it proved to be only 4.3 meters long!!"

The image of that anaconda:

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The animal is truly heavy, but not as long, apparently.

Hope this clarify the issue.

I am preparing an analysis about the records of the anaconda in Guinness, and I have found that the original estimation for the large specimen of 846 cm was of 400 lb, not 500 lb. The next versions of the Guinness book used the last figure without any real justification. Interesting, don't you think?.

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Out of topic, but really interesting, here is the longest snake that Dr Barr have measured, a huge python of 620 cm (20.5 ft), measured on camera. Here is the video, it is in Spanish, but is the only version that I could found:

Here is the picture of that animal:

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It is really long, although not so heavy, probably weighing the same (or a little less) than the large anaconda of 103 kg.

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