The size of the Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)

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do giant Anacondas exist?  even India is a python country, I've herad a lot of stories of giant man eating pythons but I dont know how far such stories cab be trusted  [img]images/smilies/undecided.gif[/img]

This should make a fascinating read.

According to the Indians of the Amazon, Anaconda is considerably larger than its scientifically accepted length which is disputed. The Indians tell stories about a creature called Sucuriju Gigante, Boiuna, or Cobra Grand known to be an Anaconda of aquatic habits and immense size.

Perhaps the most amazing report comes from Tabatinga on the River Oiapoc in the Guapore territory. In 1948, the Rio de Janeiro newspaper told of a snake that came ashore and measured an amazing one hundred and fifteen feet in length. Soldiers fired at least five hundred machine gun bullets into the beast before it was finally slain. Although the body was measured and photographed, the carcass was pushed back into the river. One imagines that the stench from the nearly immovable object would be stunning.

The explorer Percy H. Fawcett also told of another species of snake that could be found in Araguaya and Tocantins basins, known as the Dormidera (the sleeper) from the loud snoring noise it makes, which is said to be black in variety and much larger.

In 1907, Colonel Percy Fawcett was surveying the Amazon Basin for the Royal Geographical Society of London. He heard many tales of  massive snakes from the local tribes, paid them no heed. Soon, events were to prove them accurate. He and his Indian crew were slowly drifting down Rio Abuna when almost under flimsy canoe appeared a giant anaconda.

"We were drifting easily along on the sluggish current not far below the confluence of Tigor and the Rio Negro when almost under the bow there appeared a triangular head and several feet of undulating body. It was a giant anaconda. I sprang for my rifle as the creature began to make its way up the bank, and hardly waiting to aim smashed a .44 soft-nosed bullet into its spine, ten feet below the wicked head. At once there was a flurry of foam, and several heavy thumps against the boat's keel, shaking us as though we had run on a snag.."

Fawcett describes how they stopped and examined the body. Though he had no ruler, he guessed the length of the creature at sixty-two feet with a twelve-inch diameter.

http://www.phfawcettsweb.org/anaconda.htm
http://colonel-percy-fawcett.blog.co.uk/...s-8180497/




 

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