Which locale produces the largest retics?
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Largest Retic Locale?
HotRodHerps
Oct 09, 2004 06:20 PM
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PristinePythons
Oct 09, 2004 07:21 PM
All the largest recorded retics over 30ft have been sulawesi's!
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debndan_uk
Oct 10, 2004 04:13 AM
Thai
HotRodHerps
Oct 10, 2004 09:53 PM
Well the reason I ask is because I too thought Sulawesi, but I just watched "Steve Austin, Snake all Master" and he was looking on Borneo for the largest retics...? While I'm not usually impressed ny these shows where guys go out and beat the cr@p out of snakes for the sake of ratings it was alltogether quite a good program. He even cought a wild Elaphe Ridleyi, good stuff.
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matt_fl
Oct 11, 2004 06:47 PM
That guy said that cave dwelling rat snakes were just beauty snakes that were in caves to long. Actually, I hope he meant beauty snakes because that is the closest relative but he just said snake. That shows a lot of knowledge on the subject, not. At the same time, I hope he didn't mean beauty snakes because he said that the ones that lived in the forests are green. Beauty snakes are not green. Also, He gave no information on the snakes he caught exept theyre big or they live in caves, things that could be noticed if the t.v. was on mute. Also, he could have hurt that python when he was rolling around on it trying to get a dramatic affect more than he tried to educate about them. He also, in my opinion, completely villianized reticulated pythons with the way he talked about them, calling them man-eaters, in my opinion, that was not a good program AT ALL!
cfoley
Oct 11, 2004 12:54 AM
np
BMX_PYTHON
Oct 11, 2004 03:35 PM
Dude..... Makasar is just a port on the island of Sulawesi, so Makasars pretty much are sulas, except for a few minor details in coloring/patterns.
Oh, and the longest recorded retic ever was captured and killed by an indonesian hunter in 1912 on the Island of Celebes(Now Known as Sulawesi) and measured over 33 and half feet I believe.
Damon
Oct 14, 2004 08:52 AM
Thanx.
nephrurus
Oct 16, 2004 02:06 PM
He is from Malaysia
Francis Tan
Oct 18, 2004 07:32 AM
That's one of the reasons why I'm proud to be Malaysian. 
