What are the largest snakes in the world?

The longest snakes in the world are a mesh python, a medium -built Python that lives in the rainforests of Southeast Asia and Green Anaconda of the Amazon. One source (Oliver 1958 and Gilmore and Murphy 1993) showed the green anaconda with a length of 11.5 meters (37.7 ft), but its validity was questioned and the value cannot be verified. Some biologists question this and give the maximum length of anaconda to 9.5 meters (31.1 ft). Either way, the green anaconda is still probably the most difficult of the snakes in the world, while the largest known specimens weighing more than 50 kg (110 lb). Anaconda snakes up to 15-18 m (50-60 ft) were reported sporadically from the colonization of South America Europeans, but these claims are very uncertain. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Nature Conservation Society has offered $ 50,000 (US dollars) to AWARD for any Anaconda over 9.1 meters (30 ft) in length, but this price has never been collected. Yet the view of giant snakes has supported public imagination for decades, as evidenced by the filmY as Anaconda .

The longest well -documented snake is a mesh python from Southeast Asia. The longest specimen was 10.7 meters (35.1 ft) and this value is agreed by biologists. This is the only snake that has been completely confirmed that it is over 10 meters long. Large mesh pythons are greedy predators. These snakes can usually swallow anything less than 1/4 of their own lengths and up to their own weight. As such, some mesh pythons were observed that consume viverrids (eg CIVETS AND BINTURONGS), primates and even one relatively ill 43 kg (95 lb) Sun Bear, which lasted two and a half months to spend.