I watched on National Geographic HD last night an episode of Brady Barr's "Dangerous Encounters".

In this episode, he is in Indonesia searching for big retics. The locals informed him of a bat cave where large ones are said to chill out. He went in there a year ago, but a nine footer gave him a nasty bite on the leg. Good deep gashes.

So he's back, a little more prepared this time. Anyhow, he finds a large one wedged into a crevice where they can't reach it. So, he attaches some fishing line to it so that if it leaves the crevice, they can hopefully follow it.

They return to the cave the next day at sunrise and find that the snake has indeed left the crevice, and the fishing line is working perfectly so they start the trace.

I wish they would have said exactly how far from the cave the snake moved, but they followed it out of the cave, along a creek, over an embankment, along a rocky outcropping and found it coiled at the base of a large tree. By guessing I would say at least 25 yards, probably more. If this is the amount of movement for one evening/morning, is an enclosure 8 feet long by 30" wide really adequate for a snake 21 feet long? Is it even adequate for a snake 2 feet long?

They caught the snake (a nasty attitude, I must say), measured it at 21 feet and it was a real beauty. An excellent episode. Keeping it on the PVR for sure.

Chris