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by Rattler4 on February 23, 2009
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I watched this on a show called weird true and freaky. The python in this show that was measured was just under 50 feet in length and weighed 985 pounds. The size seems to be a little exagerated but the video shows that it is possible. The snake was found in 2003, and is currently being kept in a zoo in Kendal Indonesia, But wouldn't the guinness book of world records have recorded the size by now if it was correct? I know that most giant snake claims are fake but this one looks sound. The video is shown on the animal planet website. The link to the video is http://animal.discovery.com/beyond/index.html?playerId=203719213&categoryId=211217096&lineupId=36995848 .If anybody has heard anything about the size of the snake being wrong please feel to let me know, I am curious to know if it is real or not.
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by Rattler4 on February 23, 2009
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Sorry, forgot to post that when you follow the link you have to click on The On TV tab and then go to the weird true and freaky link on the right side. Scroll down thrue the options till you see a video listing named Four story python. It is the eleventh video in the list.
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by pitbulllady on February 24, 2009
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*Sigh* WHY does this thing keep coming up again and again? That particular python, a Retic, has already been officially measured by a herper from the US at just a hair over 23 feet-well short of the record length for that species. The size was greatly exaggerated, and the story of how the snake was "found" was changed many times. It's pathetic that Animal Planet does not bother to check on FACTS for their shows, but puts pretty much anything on their programming in the name of sensationalism. What do you expect from a network that panders to the Animal Rights crowd, and has shows about "heroes" who enforce BSL and anti-"exotic" laws and go take people's much-loved and well cared-for pets and KILL them?
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by Jahon on February 24, 2009
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Weird, True, and Freaky is absolutely one of the worst shows on Animal Planet. They are constantly spewing out false information on not just snakes, but other animals. Same goes with some other shows on Animal Planet like Untamed and Uncut. They were showing the one where David Weathers gets nailed by the cobra and they start it out with "Monocled cobras are the most dangerous snakes in the world." Where the hell did they get information like that? More than likely they made it up. Many of these shows make information to grab your attention. Never take anything they say for fact.
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by pitbulllady on February 24, 2009
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Animal Planet is definitely a pawn of the HSUS and PETA, and rarely presents ownership of exotic animals like reptiles in a positive light. Many of their shows are just disgusting in their bias, leading viewers to believe that all reptile owners are simply wanting the animals to bolster their self-esteem, all dog breeders operate cruel "puppy mills", all Pit Bull owners are dog-fighters, and other AR-perpetuated myths. They've become the "Weekly World News" of the AR movement, but unfortunately, most viewers have no clue just how wrong their programming often is. I knew when I saw that episode of "Animal Cops: Miami" in which the AC officer took and later killed two lovely, well-behaved, and well-cared-for American Pit Bull Terriers from their home in Dade County, which has BSL in effect, and stated as though it were gospel that they had to kill those dogs because "Pit Bulls have locking jaws and have a defect in their brains that cause them to 'snap' without warning", and Animal Planet allowed this to be shown and promoted those people as "heroes", that the whole network had gone to Hell in a handbasket. Bottom line: treat any show on Animal Planet as a work of fiction, like the movie "Anaconda", and do NOT watch it for information or facts!
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by pictigaster1 on February 24, 2009
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My town is one of the only that adopts out pitbulls.Even after there have been some deaths from them. 50 FOOT SNAKE RIGHT.
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by Rattler4 on February 24, 2009
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I thought that it exaggerated. I was out of the loop for six and a half months for military training and had never heard of this story before and though I knew It was fake I decided to ask around and check anyways. The only facts on reptiles that I believe are true facts made by true professionals.
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by Cro on February 24, 2009
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So, do not support Animal Planet.
Write them and tell them why you no longer will watch.
Watch National Geographic and Discovery instead.
Best Regards
John Z
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by pitbulllady on February 24, 2009
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Been there, done that. I do indeed watch Nat Geo instead. Most of us from the Pet Law Group refrain from watching Animal Planet, especially since they really became so sensationalistic.
Speaking of that "giant" Retic, when the keepers were told that the snake was actually only a bit less than 23 feet long, their response was that the snake could expand and contract itself, becoming larger or smaller at will, because it was a magical snake! And, anyone else here messed with an adult wild-caught Retic before? They tend to have less than amicable dispositions, and also tend to be very lean and wiry. That snake in question was very mellow and docile, as well as FAT, suggesting a Retic that had been in captivity all of its life, probably CB, which disputed the keeper's story that it was recently captured. I have to wonder if the same people are responsible for those horribly faked "photos" of a "giant snake" swimming in a river in Borneo(?)that are making their way around the internet right now.
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