In all fairness to my previous comment. I was basing my comments - on my childhood/teen memories of the first Burmese python(George) I ever saw in person. George was a wild caught (caught in Vietnam in 1963), by a US Army Green Beret officer, and bought back to Fort Bragg, NC. The officer give George to the Museum of Nature Sciences in Raleigh, NC. Which is where I saw him multiple times, in my childhood and teenage years. I remembered George being stated at ~ 18 feet, by the museum. However at the time of his death in April of 1989, George was officially revealed to be just over 16 feet long, and to be a female.An 18ft male burm is not like a 7ft man, it's like a 9ft cornsnake. Still, Ill wait for pictures as I don't know of one that exists and in my opinion it doesn't (it's like you said; an unconfirmed report). Just calling it like it is. Ive been doing this for a while my friend, I don't have one source. Been working with a well known breeder that handles 500+ retics and burms as of late changing cages for him in exchange for tattoos and he seems to agree when I brought this up last night as well.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/lo...136929293.html
And I hadn't re-read some of the older posts in this thread. So that is my fault.
Still my basic point was - that although In Your Personal Experiences, you have never encountered a male burm over 15 feet, doesn't mean that they can't get bigger than that. For example - let say you saw a 15 foot long male that was 15 years old. It would be very possible for that burm to get to be 16-17 feet long - if it lived to be 25-30 years old.
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