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So I was in an exotic store today (I've been going there all my life) to get some crickets. The store is great and always has really knowledgeable, helpful staff, as well as some amazing animals to look at.

I was checking out, when some customers behind me remarked at how "scary" looking the store's juvenile African rock python was. The cashier told them that "the African rock python is the only snake in the world that gets big enough to eat a human".

Keep in mind this store had hatchling and baby retics in stock, and yet he still said that.

Am I missing something here? Do rock pythons get as big (or bigger) than retics, or was he just misinformed?

any of the big four (rocks, retics, annies and burms), in theory, can potentially get big enough to kill a human. as far as eating them, the potential is there, the likely hood is slim to nil. i think he probably just watched one of those misinformation given "just bitten" type of shows on animal planet or national geographic. and kids believe anything that they hear on tv or read on the internet now days
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Haha, I just found it strange that he said rock pythons are the *only* snake big enough to eat a human.

I saw something on tv that mentioned that afrocks can dislocate their jaw wider than all other pythons. So although anacondas and retics both have the potential for larger size, afrocks are the only ones that could theoretically open their jaw wide enough to get past a human's shoulder blade (the widest point).

I believe this is where that information is coming from. Granted, I think I heard this on animal planet, the king of sensationalist crap.