Heaviest Living Snake

[Princesssss]

Alot of people have been asking about how large certain snakes will get and there have been many different answer being given so I thought i would check out The Guinness World Book Records. Heres what I found out:

HEAVIEST: The Heaviest living snake is a Burmese Python weighing 182.76 kg (403 lb.) It is 21 years old, 8.23-m (27 ft) long, and has a girth of 71.12 cm (28 in) Known as "Baby", she lives at the Serpent Safari Park in Gurnee, Illinois, USA.

LONGEST: The reticulated python (Python reticulates) of southeast Asia, Indonesia, and the Philippines regularly exceeds 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in). The record length is 10 m (32 ft 9.5 in), for a specimen shot in Celebes, Indonesia, in 1912.

OLDEST:The greatest age reliably recorded for a snake is 40 years, 3 months, and 14 days for a male common boa (Boa constrictor) named Popeye, who died at Philadelphia Zoo, Pennsylvania, USA, on April 15, 1977.
Pretty sure that these records should be accurate considering the source i got them from. So hope that helps answer any questions :)

[Reticsrule]

WOW those are some big snakes! lol

[marisa]

Wow those are the most innaccurate records I have seen from Guiness. Dissapointing. Maybe they are just outdated?

"Baby" I believe passed away a couple years ago for one.

There is also a documented Ball Python (in a zoo) who lived until the age of 47.

Marisa

[Alien_Regalis]

marisa

Actually I called Serpent Safari just a few months ago and Baby is alive and doing well but there are no new reports on her weight and length wich by now should be considerably more.

[chong_python]

I read some where that a ball python lived to be 49
however i cannot recall the fact location

[marisa]

Well that's good news then! :) I'll update myself lol

Marisa

[Linds]

The age is definitely not the maximum. I too know of the BP that Marisa mentioned. Additionally, I can think of other BP that are exceeding that age (and still breeding!) down in the states. Apparently Rubber Boas can exceed 70 years, which is wild. I think it just boils down to not many people caring enough to contact Guiness :p

Originally posted by Alien_Regalis

Actually I called Serpent Safari just a few months ago and Baby is alive and doing well but there are no new reports on her weight and length wich by now should be considerably more.

Hrmmm... was there not an obituary for her in Reptiles Magazine a year or two ago :confused::confused::confused:

[Princesssss]

Well as i said I got that info from Guinness....so i thought that it would be accurate...i just thought it would atleast give some people an idea of what some of the records have reached too...soo sorry if its not as up to date as i assumed
Nicole

[snakeylesnake]

the oldest recorded snake is a ball python, that lived just over 47 years in captivity, but because it was a wild caught, no-one will ever know the real age.
cheers
Paul

[JimmyDavid]

I always said that trusting records is playing in the dark, you never know.
Seems that Guinness accepted the claim made by "Baby"'s owner, but did they check it themselves? umm..maybe not. Judging from pics i believe Baby was about the same size of my big burm Anastacia (dead now) and she was about 300 pounds.
Longevity records have one problem: you can never track it back. It's hard to prove when the snake came out of the egg.

[lucky8926]

I think Guinness checks everything before they put it in the book. They aren't just going to go by someones word on it.

[TurboHatchB18]

No..Baby is still alive. Baby is located in a big mall called Gurnee Mills mall. THe store baby is in is Serpent Safari. I saw Baby there about 2 weeks ago so im pretty sure it's still alive. The people told me she's supposed to die soon in about a year or two.

[Bloodman6]

How old is Fluffy? How is she doing?

[Bloodman6]

Originally posted by JimmyDavid
I always said that trusting records is playing in the dark, you never know.
Seems that Guinness accepted the claim made by "Baby"'s owner, but did they check it themselves? umm..maybe not. Judging from pics i believe Baby was about the same size of my big burm Anastacia (dead now) and she was about 300 pounds.

Maybe they weighed her after a big meal.

[daiyoukai]

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/700938742burmese.jpg

I belive this is baby?

[Paul_Begg]

The people told you she was supposed to die soon????????
and to me. the above picture doesnt appear to be a 27 foot long snake. Maybe its the old ocks!
cheers
Paul

[JimmyDavid]

The reason i always doubted them is more because of the lenght. Hell, i could believe the 400 pound claim, but 27 feet???
I think only the very biggest retics get there. Any snake above 25 feet is gotta be, in my book, a retic. I don't image any other species( like a burm) at 27 feet.

[The Dom]

I could see an african rock or maybe even a scrubb python attaining those sizes... Its rare but its not imposible..

I do agree taht pic looks like a massive snake but not that long..

Dom

[kaa]

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[JimmyDavid]

Did you post anything at all???

[BOA68]

If you go to the guinness web site and search "heaviest living snake" you will see that the report of "Baby" being the heaviest living snake is from November 20, 1998. So guinness hasn't updated recently and i wouldn't trust all of those records anyway.

And also i am guessing that she is still alive because the Serpent Safari website has her on the homepage and says "the home of baby" with a pic of her. But it also says that she is over 404lbs now and 27ft. There is no way that she is 27ft and why hasn't guinness upped the weight if she is now over 404lbs?
I'm not buying it.

[JimmyDavid]

I'm with you.

[LeoGeckoRetic]

I've seen baby in person and i believe that she could be 404 lbs but i'm pretty sure that it was after a big meal. They told me that one time they wanted to see how much she would eat and they said they gave her somnething like 8 chickens, a goat and two pigs or something like that and i bet thats when they weighed her but i couldn't be sure.

[JimmyDavid]

How long ago did you see the snake?

[repticfreak7]

27' and 403 lbs! That's a huge snake. lol.;) :p

[LeoGeckoRetic]

last year during the summer sometime. I don't think she is 27 feet i say closter to 20 but that is the fattest snake i've ever seen. and not a healthy girth more like a lazy overfed big.

[LeoGeckoRetic]

Here is a picture i took of her it isn't that good though

[dave68]

There was another"Baby" it was a large retic that died recently somewhere in Europe. I thought I saw it in recent Reptiles mag, but couldn't find it.

Dave

[JimmyDavid]

Leo, is it true they have a huge anaconda there? I've heard it up to 350 pounds.

[LeoGeckoRetic]

Yeah here's a picture i took of it. And they said they used it in parts of the movie anaconda because it was the only anaconda they could find that didn't bite the camera. Both the this picture and the one of the burm is with a regular camera so i had to scan them thats why they're not that good

[pablo111]

A ball python DID live to be 49-
"THE BALL PYTHON MANUAL"
Vosjoli, Klingenberg, circa 1992 (?)

[CHRISANDBOIDS14]

Originally posted by LeoGeckoRetic
Yeah here's a picture i took of it. And they said they used it in parts of the movie anaconda because it was the only anaconda they could find that didn't bite the camera. Both the this picture and the one of the burm is with a regular camera so i had to scan them thats why they're not that good

Can I say ridiculously Obese?

C.