Ignorance at it's worst

Woke up to it on fb this morning. Annoying

Pass this around anytime you see something like that pop up.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

I remember seeing it sometime last week. How anyone could just believe it at face value is beyond me.

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Originally Posted by RoseRed

I remember seeing it sometime last week. How anyone could just believe it at face value is beyond me.

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Because like the thread title implies, people are ignorant and narrow-minded. All they see is a big snake and don't care about anything else. It's these kind of people who need to be educated about snakes so they don't see this again and immediately think "OMG IT'S A MAN-EATING SNAKE D: RUN AWAY! KILL IT" etc.

It has retic patterning and very well could be an animal that is 14FT+ but like others have pointed out, its in the foreground so it appears larger.

If it WAS pulled from a lake in North Carolina, you'd better believe there'd be a HUGE media sensation over it. People read one article and go bananas, yet don't stop to think that something as big a story as this would be on TV, in multiple articles, and be making nation-wide news.

I always thought that they were real photos (I've only seen the "dead" looking one though) but since I thought they were in the forests of Indonesia I went "hm, well I guess it's possible since they're in a previously uninhabited area". Obviously it's POSSIBLE, look at the world's largest retic, who I believe is about 45ft? They CAN grow to monster proportions, but those snakes are found in remote areas where there has been little to no human contact.

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Originally Posted by xFenrir

I always thought that they were real photos (I've only seen the "dead" looking one though) but since I thought they were in the forests of Indonesia I went "hm, well I guess it's possible since they're in a previously uninhabited area". Obviously it's POSSIBLE, look at the world's largest retic, who I believe is about 45ft? They CAN grow to monster proportions, but those snakes are found in remote areas where there has been little to no human contact.

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:hmm: did you mean 25 ft?

It's just the depth of field in the photo. Makes the crane look smaller because the snake is way in the foreground of the photo.

(Thats also how they filmed Lord of the Rings without photoshopping the hobbits. )

There are a lot of people ignorant about animals in general. Just the other day, a friend on facebook was posting a photo of a dikdik and claiming it was a baby giraffe. Then there was that felt toy bear from etsy that was being shared as a live newborn polar bear.

45foot retic? show me one credible source. Guinness book of world records has recorded the longest snake in captivity as ~25 feet. Fluffy from the Columbus Zoo held the title until he passed a few years ago. Medusa at the Edge of Hell is credited as the longest retic in captivity now. Both in the 25foot range. A captive bred and born snake given the best of care and food and zero predators (much better conditions then any animal in the wild) and none have measured 40+ feet.

Percy Fawcett claimed to have seen anacondas in South America literally 100 years ago that were over 50feet. He did not have a measuring tape and did not have any live specimens. Nothing I have ever read even indicate that he captured any of these monsters. No one has found one of that length since.

The Bronx Zoo has offered a reward since the early 1900s for anyone to present them with a living snake in excess of 30feet. That reward has gone unclaimed for 100 years. If they existed at that length, someone would have claimed the $50k reward.

Heck, Titanoboa which lived on this earth 50million years ago was in the range of 50feet. According to the bones found, it was so wide it would not fit through the door in a house. Interestingly enough, we have more evidence proving a 50 million year old snake was 50feet then evidence proving any other present day snake at that length.

RE: the pic that started this thread. Picture someone's hand holding the snake just above outside the camera frame, letting the snake dangle right in front of the lens. Show any fisherman these pics and they know exactly what is up.

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Originally Posted by OctagonGecko729

It has retic patterning and very well could be an animal that is 14FT+ but like others have pointed out, its in the foreground so it appears larger.

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It really doesn't look like a retic to me, it's a pretty dark/bad picture but it appears to me to be just a regular old circle back boa. Also if you notice in the picture that it appears as though the snake is hanging from something outside of the cameras view off of the top of the picture. All you can see is the front end of a snake and then the back end of a snake hanging down. I'm not convinced that both of these ends are even of the same snake.