One of the snakes largest ever found?
Viral has made a clip in which you can see how a crane Raise to a large snake in the island of Dominica, located in the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean Sea.
The animal was found by workers who were clearing a part of the island’s tropical forest, according to the newspaper ‘The Sun’.
As can be seen in the video, the snake is lifted several meters from the ground by the claw of the crane, the animal is alive and brings its head towards the machinery.
“How about just leaving her and her habitat alone? Probably the largest snake in the world found while clearing part of the Dominican rainforest”Wrote one of its users on Twitter.
Another of the Internet users commented: “Precious, impressive I hope they didn’t kill her to ‘study’ her”.
Others questioned the crane’s work in the reptile’s habitat: “The question of the 64 thousand What were they dismantling in that place and what are they going to build?”They commented.
The reptile could measure about 14 feet long (4 meters), indicated the New York newspaper ‘El Diario’, other media assured that it was about 10 feet (3 meters).
Taking into account these measures, and despite the comments of users, who considered it the largest snake in the world, the reptile in the video still would not take this record.
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According to the Guinness Record, the title was taken by a Burmese python in 2016, whose species is native to Southeast Asia, but which lived in Illinois, United States. The animal measured 5.74 meters (about 18 feet in length).
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The boa constrictor can be found in Central and South America, reaching up to four meters.
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Bernardo Toloza. TIME
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It has also been pointed out that the species to which the snake in the viral video belongs is still unknown, although the aforementioned media assure that it may be a boa constrictor, native to the area.
Boas are constrictive animals and do not possess venom, however, they can bite their victims before wrapping them with their body.
They mainly inhabit the tropical areas of South and Central America and can measure up to four meters. They are smaller than anacondas, explains ‘National Geographic’ magazine.
“They are cousins of anacondas, excellent swimmers, but prefer to stay in dry land, where they tend to take refuge in hollow logs and abandoned mammal burrows.”, Indicates the same magazine.
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