i didn't know this

[Lrptls]

i was looking for things about fluffy and ran across this and it sais something very interesting....

"The Guinness Book of World Records lists the longest ever captured snake to be 32 feet (9.75 meters). The heaviest -- a Burmese Python kept in Gurnee, Illinois -- weighs 403 pounds (182.76 kilograms)"

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/12/29/offbeat.giant.snake.ap/index.html

[Cruciform]

The burm they refer to is Baby, I believe. Someone else on here could verify.

And she's still the biggest, since the snake captured in that village never really was as big as they said it was :)

[Lrptls]

i always thought a retic or a green conda would hold that record. but i'v seen pictures of baby and she is gigantic so i can see why she is the biggest. but i also read alot that fluffy is the longest snake right now.

[Matt_K]

I might be wrong, but i remember there being a thread like this earlier with a list of all the records.. The record for longest snake was a Retic, but the record for Heaviest was a burm.. I think that quote you have there was butchered by CNN and they got it mixed up..

[Matt_K]

The record-holder is the reticulated python (Python Reticulatus) of southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines, which regularly exceeds 6.25m (20.5ft).

The greatest proven length for this species is 10m (32ft 9.5in) for a specimen shot on the north coast of Celebes, Indonesia, in 1912; it was accurately measured with a surveying tape by civil engineers working at a nearby mining camp. The closest runner-up is an African rock python (Python Sabae) measuring 9.81m (32ft 2.25in), which was shot in 1932 by Mrs Charles Beart, in the grounds of a school in Bingerville, Ivory Coast, West Africa; however, this particular individual was truly exceptional, since the average length for this species is only 3-5m (9ft 10in - 16ft 5in)

Taken from This Site (http://members.tripod.com/wellsking/worldrecs.htm)

And HERE (http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7961&highlight=world+record) is the thread i got that from..

[Lrptls]

thank you for that matt, thats a really cool website

[Matt_K]

yeah, except for the pop ups.. I appologize for them, if you dont have a pop up stopper :D

[Lrptls]

yeah they are really bad but i'm good at ignoring them

[scalawag]

I've seen Baby, over 400 lbs. Huge Burm.

[M_surinamensis]

Huge... overweight... obese... disgustingly overfed for the sensationalism it brings... Burm.

There are obviously different ways of measuring size, length versus weight is a common one... there's also different ways of modifying the context of a record. "Longest" "Largest" "Longest in captivity" "Largest verified" "Largest alive" and so on...

Knowing the way Baby is kept and WHY Baby is kept, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the numbers were fudged a bit every year to ensure she stays as the record holder. Serpent Safari have a pretty poor reputation when it comes to responsible and accurate information about their animals and animals in general, the place is run as a massive freak show- people (the majority anyway) attend not to see some interesting animals and learn something about them, it's a "Hey Ma! Looky da snake! Da's a big 'ole snake! Bet it could eat mah car! Hooooooeeee!" kind of environment.

Masuring the exact length of a large snake is tough, as anyone who's tried it knows well. Getting them to straighten out and stop moving while it's attempted isn't an easy proposition... There's been a lot of debate about which was bigger lengthwise; Fluffy or Baby and I suspect Baby is going to retain the record until she dies (Cholestorol poisoning most likely) in that Fluffy is probably fed a HEALTHY amount rather than set up three times a week for public "feeding demonstrations" ("Hey Brandine! Looky dat snake eatin' dat pig! Hoooooeeeeee!")