Any body who cached the biggest anaconda?

Answer 1

Hey Eviot,

You should post this question in Pets or another category, this category is Genealogy - which relates to people.

Answer 2

Giant Anacondas
There is some debate about the maximum size of anacondas, and there have been unverified claims of enormous snakes alleged to be even much larger.

According to Lee Krystek [6], a 1944 petroleum expedition in Colombia claimed to have measured an 11.4m (37.5ft) specimen, but this claim is not always regarded as reliable; perhaps a more credible report came from scientist Vincent Roth, who claimed to have shot and killed a 10.3m (34ft) anaconda in British Guiana.

There are some reports from early European explorers of the South American jungles seeing giant anacondas up to 18.2m (60ft) long and some of the native peoples of the South American jungle have reported seeing anacondas up to 15.2m (50ft) long.[7], but these examples are not verified, and are often regarded as exaggerated.

Another claim of extraordinary anaconda size was reported by adventurer Percy Fawcett. During a 1906 expedition, Fawcett wrote that he had shot and wounded an anaconda in South America; he reported the snake measured some 18.9m (62 ft) from nose to tail. [8] Once publicized, Fawcett’s account of the giant snake was widely ridiculed, although he insisted his account was both truthful and accurate. Decades later, Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans came to Fawcett's defense, arguing that Fawcett's writing was generally honest and reliable. [9] Furthermore, Heuvelmans noted that mainstream experts were repeatedly forced to revise their limits regarding the maximum size of snakes when confronted with specimens that defied the generally-accepted estimates: at one point 6 metres (20 feet) in length was the widely-accepted maximum size of an anaconda, but during Heuvelmans' life, figures in the 9m (30ft) range were accepted as plausible.

Historian Mike Dash writes [10] of claims of still larger anacondas, alleged to be as long as 30-45m (100-150ft) -- some of which are evidenced with photos, all of which lack any sense of scale; Dash notes that if a 50-60ft anaconda strains credulity, then a 150ft long specimen is generally regarded as an outright impossibility.