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Longest snake living in captivity dies - Friday The 13th - 10-28-2010
'Fluffy' was as long as a moving van, thick as a telephone pole
COLUMBUS, Ohio â An Ohio zoo said the longest snake living in captivity has died. The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said workers found the 24-foot python Wednesday morning dead from an apparent tumor.
The snake, named Fluffy, held the Guinness World Record as the longest snake living in captivity. It was about as long as a moving van and as thick as a telephone pole. It weighed 300 pounds.
The 18-year-old reticulated python had drawn large crowds since the zoo got it in 2007.
Reticulated pythons are named for the cross-hatching patterns on their skin and average 10 to 20 feet long. The largest recorded one was 32 feet, 9-1/2 inches long when it was killed in 1912 in Indonesia.
Longest snake living in captivity dies - mytee - 10-28-2010
And they are loose in the everglades
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4k84KW07Sw"]YouTube - Florida Everglades: Monster Snakes[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cqZuDMrQjI"]YouTube - MonsterQuest Episode 14 (5:36) Giant Pythons in America[/ame]
Pretty soon it's gonna be like a bad SYFY channel movie down there! I watched this program on Discovery channel this past summer about invasive species in the Everglades particularly-this is a big problem
Longest snake living in captivity dies - Friday The 13th - 10-29-2010
Snakes don't really scare me, even the poisonous ones.
Longest snake living in captivity dies - mytee - 10-29-2010
Well not a regular size one-but we're talking monsters here-but spiders are what scares me I jump 6 feet in the air and leave claw marks on the ceiling
Longest snake living in captivity dies - Friday The 13th - 10-29-2010
Haha spiders creep my mom out, but they just don't really have an effect on me.