Thread: Another silly bear

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Yep. There are Anacondas also. Burmese are bigger bodied but not as longAttachment 322178
This is a Burmese bagged in Florida

I thought that the Anacondas had more girth and were heavier and Burmese were the longer. So I went looking--at least this one source confirms what I was thinking:
Difference Between Python and Anaconda | Difference Between

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You hear conflicting things depending on where you get your information from. The Burmese python is normally thought of as the big fat boy and the anaconda as longer. The reticulated python is also very big. These are all based on records. I hear people say all the time that they saw an Eastern Dimondback rattlesnake that reached from one side of the road to the other which would be probably twice the record at 96" but that doesn't mean there isn't one out there that's bigger than 96". Either way a 25-ft snake is large enough to eat a full-grown human. A matter of a foot or two or a pound or two either way is going to make very little difference when you're being ingested

And one half that length is capable of killing a grown adult if you get careless and let one get around you and start constricting. I took a herpetology elective in high school from a legendary teacher who had boas, pythons, a small gator, and even a rattlesnake in an aquarium in his classroom. I caught and kept snakes as pets off and on throughout my childhood, and even had a couple of boas in my 20's, though never any of the truly huge ones. My wife won't tolerate them now, but I'll still catch one to play with for a little bit if I see one in the yard (but not a copperhead).

Last year in a remote part of the Smokey Mountains (literally "The Road to Nowhere" of local infamy in Swain County), I saw the most beautiful black-phase timber rattlesnake I have ever seen on my jaunts through the mountains. Since there is a little traffic up there, I got out to move it (carefully) off the road with my extended hiking staff-it was not the least bit grateful that I probably saved it from being roadkill. Somewhere on my Instagram page is a video of it rattling furiously, coiled up in the classic S strike position. Non-invasive species like that need all the help we can give them. I know Florida is overrun with invasives-good luck eradicating them!

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

Yep. There are Anacondas also. Burmese are bigger bodied but not as longAttachment 322178
This is a Burmese bagged in Florida

That snake does not look dead enough to satisfy me.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

And one half that length is capable of killing a grown adult if you get careless and let one get around you and start constricting. I took a herpetology elective in high school from a legendary teacher who had boas, pythons, a small gator, and even a rattlesnake in an aquarium in his classroom. I caught and kept snakes as pets off and on throughout my childhood, and even had a couple of boas in my 20's, though never any of the truly huge ones. My wife won't tolerate them now, but I'll still catch one to play with for a little bit if I see one in the yard (but not a copperhead).

Last year in a remote part of the Smokey Mountains (literally "The Road to Nowhere" of local infamy in Swain County), I saw the most beautiful black-phase timber rattlesnake I have ever seen on my jaunts through the mountains. Since there is a little traffic up there, I got out to move it (carefully) off the road with my extended hiking staff-it was not the least bit grateful that I probably saved it from being roadkill. Somewhere on my Instagram page is a video of it rattling furiously, coiled up in the classic S strike position. Non-invasive species like that need all the help we can give them. I know Florida is overrun with invasives-good luck eradicating them!

Ooh pretty.
Yeah even upstate where I live we have Cuban tree frogs as big as your hand. They eat the native ones

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

And one half that length is capable of killing a grown adult if you get careless and let one get around you and start constricting. I took a herpetology elective in high school from a legendary teacher who had boas, pythons, a small gator, and even a rattlesnake in an aquarium in his classroom. I caught and kept snakes as pets off and on throughout my childhood, and even had a couple of boas in my 20's, though never any of the truly huge ones. My wife won't tolerate them now, but I'll still catch one to play with for a little bit if I see one in the yard (but not a copperhead).

Last year in a remote part of the Smokey Mountains (literally "The Road to Nowhere" of local infamy in Swain County), I saw the most beautiful black-phase timber rattlesnake I have ever seen on my jaunts through the mountains. Since there is a little traffic up there, I got out to move it (carefully) off the road with my extended hiking staff-it was not the least bit grateful that I probably saved it from being roadkill. Somewhere on my Instagram page is a video of it rattling furiously, coiled up in the classic S strike position. Non-invasive species like that need all the help we can give them. I know Florida is overrun with invasives-good luck eradicating them!

While in all my years, I've never seen a King Snake but I'm told they are found in the Pacific Northwest-----Rattlesnakes??? Lots! My grandfather had a set of rattles that were 3 inches long.

I've read that this is one of the reasons that the King Snake has earned the name. While not impervious to all venom, Rattlesnakes don't bother them.

I went through the Zoological Parks Technology program at Santa Fe College. Herpetology was my main point of interest. I belonged to the local herpetological society but my main interest was lizards not snakes although a friend who was from DC and I used to catch snakes and take them up there and sell them. People would pay ridiculous amounts for yellow rats and corn snakes which were a dime a dozen here.
Also Eastern Dimondbacks were high dollar.

Bigger isn't always more dangerous. I wouldn't want to be bitten by a Black Mamba and it's a little snake.

This same guy from DC had a bunch of really hot stuff, palm vipers, bamboo vipers, even a gaboon and a tiger snake but then he at one point had a green mamba. As said, not a big snake. It was about the size of a pencil or a little bigger but long. I didn't even like being in the same room with that thing.

Actually big snakes are not that dangerous unless they are hungry, which.for a 20-25 foot snake is not very often. They may only eat o ce every six months