Anaconda

Recently, there is an aerial photograph that makes a scene in Malaysia. A giant snake swimming in Baleh River, Sibu, Sarawak, northern Borneo that are in Malaysia.

A photo of a giant snake-sway melenggak seen swimming in a river surrounded by tropical peat forest. Black snake is very large, nearly filled the river which lies amidst lush swamp forest. Water lapped at the left-right. Reportedly, the photo was taken from a helicopter, 11 February 2009.



Photo that is the broad debate in Malaysia today. Kalimantan does have giant snakes. But so far, a large snake that was discovered is a kind of Python or python or Kalimantan people call it snake fields, dozens of meters long.

But the snake is seen in photos and circulated widely on the internet, including Youtube, much longer and larger than python findings so far. An estimated length of 100 feet or about 33 meters.

Pictures were taken by team members of the floods and then published by the Messenger of Sarawak, a local newspaper last week. New Straits Times in Kuala Lumpur, also load the image which is then released by The Telegraph, UK.

There also does not believe the picture and consider it mere engineering. This is because it is too far away shooting the snake. True or not, the photo was made public in the vicinity of Sarawak, particularly Sibu, fear. Therefore, the river was a transportation artery for this community.

Based on the legend that lived in local communities, it is believed about the existence of an anaconda in the region named Nabau. According to belief, Nabau is a snake with a length of 80 meters with dragon heads and seven nostril. Villagers who live on the river Baleh Borneo believe these mystical creatures. Moreover, people are often seen large snakes in the region.

Well, the question is, when the photo was genuine, whether the snake is seen that kind of python or anaconda? Until now it has not been found in the anaconda in Borneo, except in the movie Anaconda: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid is selling it.

Current record longest snake is an anaconda (eunectes) from Amazon. Anaconda is the boa family. The length of an anaconda that was discovered was 50 feet, but scientists believe there is a long anaconda 80 feet, even 100 feet from the snake skin findings by British scientists on an expedition in 1992. In the family Anaconda, according to environmental site Mongabay, the largest green anaconda (Eunectes murinus). Length is 43 meters.

Python Asia is the second longest snake. Scientists call it the Asiatic Reticulated Python (python reticulatus). Longest python is found in Kalimantan area 33 feet in length, and is the world record for the longest current Python. Scientists long believed the python can reach 50 feet or about 15 meters.

The difference is more slender and expert anaconda swim. While python fatter and just like the humidity, not in water. Anaconda bite their prey to death before swallowing, while the python uses its power to bind the prey until his bones were destroyed or did not move again, then swallowed whole.

Early February, scientists found fossils of snakes weighing a small car. The snake was estimated to be crushed cow-sized animals. 45 feet long monster named Titanoboa very big and live by eating crocodiles and giant turtles. It weighed 1.25 tonnes. He used to crawl around the tropical forests of South America 60 years ago.