How big could they be?

So's a bit of critical thinking, mate.

That entry is a bit of a stretch. Snopes is a website whose whole raison d'etre is to pass judgement on things, and still the best it can do on this particular rumour is that
1) the photos are older than the (clearly clumsy) e.mail story. I've seen several versions of this doing the rounds, and the e.mail Snopes chooses to quote is easily the worst-written version I've yet seen ... as if (sureley not?!) it's judging the veracity of the rumour by the word skills of the person who wrote the accompanying message ...
and
2) no "major" (ie US) news service has reported the death (as if what the US talks about is all that matters or even actually happens in the world).

Snopes is a website with its own inherent bias and is beloved of internet snarks who have nothing of their own to contribute to conversations.


You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

The snake in the picture isn't even an anaconda, it's a reticulated python. Native to south-east Asia, so unless it's gone on holiday it's nowhere near Brazil.



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Depends on many things, such as the girth of the snake and how plentiful its food source is. No constrictor would ever attack a human for food unless provoked or beyond starving. Also a correction, the starving scenario has happened with smaller snakes than reticulated, most recently in 2013 an African Rock python ate not one but two children in New Brunswick, CA. Rock pythons are larger than some anacondas, but smaller than Green Anacondas.

I'm not sure why people are focused on whether a snake that large could eat a human when there are so many other unrealistic things about the snake's behavior in the film. Aside from the CGI, it's depicted as aggressive, intelligent, land-roaming, able to support its massive body weight with just its tail, and weirdest of all has the metabolism of a Trinbagodian olympic runner. A 120 lb animal would last that snake the better part of a month, and it wouldn't again be starving for months after that.


Et ses mains ourdiraient les entrailles du prêtre
Au défaut d'un cordon pour étrangler les rois

Though boas tend to get bigger than anacondas, the worlds largest snake WAS an anaconda coming in at approximately 80 feet. No lie. I saw it on a documentary a couple years ago. There was a report of a 100 foot anaconda that some man claimed to see, but it was never proven. The 80 foot one was never caught, which is why it's not too commonly known. The largest one today is 55 feet.