Australian Speed Bump?

I receive a lot of snake related emails, and this one was recently forwarded to me claiming to be an "Australian Speed Bump" found in Gloucester in NSW. There are only two things wrong... they call them speed "humps" in Australia, and that's a Green Anaconda which aren't normally found near Gloucester. :P

Still, how cool would it be to come across that snake in the middle of the road?

Oh, one more thing... I was trying to find the real origin of this picture and came across an Australian Python Forum. One of the members mentioned that he didn't know what kind of snake it was, but maybe it was a Ball Python. :8:

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...a/untitled.jpg

Def a green Conda and you right they are called humps down under and they are a hell of a lot bigger lol

it's an anaconda and looking at the foliage around the road, this looks like to be a tropical area...(banana tree leaves poking up on the right hand side). i've never been to australia so i dont know if banana trees grow in australia.

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Originally Posted by Tyger9791

it's an anaconda and looking at the foliage around the road, this looks like to be a tropical area...(banana tree leaves poking up on the right hand side). i've never been to australia so i dont know if banana trees grow in australia.

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Of course, this could also be a released Anaconda living wild in Australia. Kind of like seeing a Burmese python in the Everglades. Is the NSW region sufficiently tropical enough to support an Anaconda?

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Originally Posted by Tyger9791

it's an anaconda and looking at the foliage around the road, this looks like to be a tropical area...(banana tree leaves poking up on the right hand side). i've never been to australia so i dont know if banana trees grow in australia.

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There is a ton of banana farming that takes place in the tropical areas near Carins.. In fact when I was there back in December of '07, We met some Kiwis(New Zealanders) who were spending a year in Australia to see the sights, and were paying for it by working on a banana farm.

There are portions of rainforest in Aussie land.

its probably more like south american speed bumb.

but isnt it illegal to import animals into austrialia?

I really don't think that picture was taken in Australia. I also came across a few other links with that same picture that claimed it was an "African Speed Bump" and a "Brazilian Speed Bump".

It was more than likely in South America...

oh i'm sure it isn't in australia I just was letting tyger know that there are banana trees there.

By the way-that has got to be one of the largest wild Eunectes I've ever seen photographed. Even assuming the minimum width of a two-track dirt road, that animal is enormous. She stretches completely across, with quite a bit left over on the left hand side!I'd guess 22-26 ft easily.