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I'm posting this in several forums. What is the longest/largest snake currently in captivity? Is it in a zoo or zoo type facility or possibly under a private person's care? Pictures if possible, please.

Bob Clark's retic, 'fluffy' is huge. I'd say easily 25'. Do a search in the retic forum, you should find some pics of her. Bo

Here's Fluffy....

http://forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=67706,67706

Bo

>>Here's Fluffy....
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On National Geo. they had a Retic @ the san Deigo Zoo. I think it was a 27ft that flat lined one of the Zoo's reptile workers! They called the EMS and they kick started his heart.

Fluffy is just about half babies age. I think baby is 25 and Fluffy is 15 (I welcome any corrections on this, but I know I am darn close to being accurate) I don't expect Baby to live much longer, (unfortunately), so any growing on her part is pretty much over and done with. Fluffers still has a good 10 years of growing and only needs to grow roughly 2 1/2 feet and put on roughly 75 pounds or so to surpass Baby's measurements and set a new record.

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Baby is considered the largest in captivity. There used to be a Retic in NY named Samantha that was longer but not as "robust" as Baby. I think Samantha died a couple of years ago.
Serpent Safari

As for your question, there was a large Reticulated Python that passed away recently, I believe Wes von Papineau may have posted the article about it, but anyway that snake may have been one of the largest in captivity (sorry but I don't remember the size). As for "Baby" which is a Burmese python kept at Serpent Safari in the Gurnee Mills Mall in Gurnee, IL I personally don't believe she's as long as advertised but even more than that she is disgustingly overweight and I'm amazed she's even alive. Serpent Safari is to contemporary herpetoculture what the roadside zoo was 30 years ago. I toured Serpent Safari once and that was enough to see that the information doled out to visitors was sensationalist, and often woefully innaccurate or even completely erroneous. As for the actual measurement of the snake I seriously doubt its validity. The estimated weight however (I believe it's somewhere over 400 pounds), I do believe as the snake in question looks less like a snake and more like a gigantic deflated balloon. The current accepted records for size in giant snakes go like this:

Green Anaconda: 9-9.5m
Reticulated Python: 10.1m
African Rock Python: 9.75m
Indian Python (Python molurus): 5.8m
Scrub or Amethystine Python: 8.5m

And for the metrically-challenged 1 meter = approximately 39 inches.

Matt Campbell

The longest snake I've ever seen and the largest snake that is not obese is the 13-year-old Sulawesi female retic at the San Antonio Zoo. When she was 5-years old she was tranguilized and exactly measured at just under 200 lbs and 23' 10" . All I can tell you with any certainty is that she's a whole lot bigger now.

I saw Samantha at the Bronx, a truly immense wild-caught Borneo specimen of unknown age. She had a regal quality about her, a quiet curiosity. She also had a head the size of a shoe box. She lost more than a foot of her length when a door was closed on her tail.

The San Antionio Zoo retic also has a giant head and little bitty evil grey eyes (typical of big Sulawesi specimens--they are "pig-eyed". A couple of her keepers have told me that they are pretty sure that at some point she began to think about trying to catch them.

To give you an idea of the size of the snake, it takes her about 20-30 minutes to eat a 60 pound pig. I know that may not mean much to most of you who are reading this except the few keepers with big retics who regularly deal with big dead goats and pigs (people don't think about that when they get a cute baby retic)--but it's a big snake that can eat a pig that fast. I don't think a 100 pound pig would pose a challenge for her.

Baby is touted to have been weighed at 403 pounds, but I guarantee you that it was after she had eaten 100+ pounds of rabbits. She's just a big fat Burmese, nothing at all like a truly big retic.

>>The longest snake I've ever seen and the largest snake that is not obese is the 13-year-old Sulawesi female retic at the San Antonio Zoo. When she was 5-years old she was tranguilized and exactly measured at just under 200 lbs and 23' 10" . All I can tell you with any certainty is that she's a whole lot bigger now.
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>>I saw Samantha at the Bronx, a truly immense wild-caught Borneo specimen of unknown age. She had a regal quality about her, a quiet curiosity. She also had a head the size of a shoe box. She lost more than a foot of her length when a door was closed on her tail.
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>>The San Antionio Zoo retic also has a giant head and little bitty evil grey eyes (typical of big Sulawesi specimens--they are "pig-eyed". A couple of her keepers have told me that they are pretty sure that at some point she began to think about trying to catch them.
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>>To give you an idea of the size of the snake, it takes her about 20-30 minutes to eat a 60 pound pig. I know that may not mean much to most of you who are reading this except the few keepers with big retics who regularly deal with big dead goats and pigs (people don't think about that when they get a cute baby retic)--but it's a big snake that can eat a pig that fast. I don't think a 100 pound pig would pose a challenge for her.
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>>Baby is touted to have been weighed at 403 pounds, but I guarantee you that it was after she had eaten 100 pounds of rabbits. She's just a big fat Burmese, nothing at all like a truly big retic.
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It isn't "Ideas" that fail or succeed,... it is the "Systems" which are instilled to launch and sustain the idea that either fail or succeed.>[Me.]

Didn't you raise the San Antonio Zoo retic?

>>The longest snake I've ever seen and the largest snake that is not obese is the 13-year-old Sulawesi female retic at the San Antonio Zoo. When she was 5-years old she was tranguilized and exactly measured at just under 200 lbs and 23' 10" . All I can tell you with any certainty is that she's a whole lot bigger now.
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>>I saw Samantha at the Bronx, a truly immense wild-caught Borneo specimen of unknown age. She had a regal quality about her, a quiet curiosity. She also had a head the size of a shoe box. She lost more than a foot of her length when a door was closed on her tail.
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>>The San Antionio Zoo retic also has a giant head and little bitty evil grey eyes (typical of big Sulawesi specimens--they are "pig-eyed". A couple of her keepers have told me that they are pretty sure that at some point she began to think about trying to catch them.
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>>To give you an idea of the size of the snake, it takes her about 20-30 minutes to eat a 60 pound pig. I know that may not mean much to most of you who are reading this except the few keepers with big retics who regularly deal with big dead goats and pigs (people don't think about that when they get a cute baby retic)--but it's a big snake that can eat a pig that fast. I don't think a 100 pound pig would pose a challenge for her.
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>>Baby is touted to have been weighed at 403 pounds, but I guarantee you that it was after she had eaten 100 pounds of rabbits. She's just a big fat Burmese, nothing at all like a truly big retic.

There's a guy in classifieds looking to buy a retic of 22 feet or better.