Just something to think about....

Sucuriju gigante


Introduction
Sucuriju gigante means "Giant Water Snake" or "Giant Boa". Has also been called "Mysterious Beast" and "Controller" in the belief that it "controls" certains sections of the rivers it inhabits. Sucuriju gigante is mostly likely a giant Anaconda that is a distinct species from the common anaconda, Eunectes murinus.


Description
Body
Length: Up to 40 meters. Width: Up to 80 centimeters. Weight: Up to 5 tons.

Skin
Dark chestnut color with the belly being spotted with dirty white.

Habitat
In the rivers of the Amazaon basin in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru

Diet
Various types of animals and occasionally people.



Tim Dinsdale in his book, Monster Hunt, discusses stories recounted by a young Englishman named Craig who lived in Paraguay after WW I, about a "Mysterious Beast" which he never saw, but which he credits with taking a young farmhand and several cattle at various times while they were swimming across El Paso Limpo, a crossing in the Rio Jacare. He actually witnessed one of incidents, when a calf was pulled under. Craig later concluded that the culprit must have been an exceptionally large catfish, but Dinsdale doubts this, and goes on to make his case that it was a sucuriju gigante, the "giant water snake."

Dinsdale continues with several accounts of the thing, particularly an incident which was reported in the 1-24-48 issue of the Diario de Pernambuco, of a sucuriju which was captured while lying on the river bank ingesting a steer. It was reported as weighing 5 tons and being 80 centimeters in diameter and 40 meters long. The report included a poor-quality photo with nothing to gauge the actual size of the creature by. The animal was reportedly killed, but there's no indication of what happened to the body from the newspaper story.

There is, however, another newspaper story (from A Provincia do Para) with another photo of a giant snake, which Dinsdale feels is of the same snake after its body had been pushed back into the river and floated downstream. And indeed, in the second photo all you can see is a long, mottled body - apparently bellyup - floating in the water with the head and tip of the tail invisible, just as you'd expect a dead snake to float.

Ms. sb, I am trying to be serious here, for once. I thought this was interesting so I wanted to share it with everyone.

And

Yes, I do like snakes. I like em' a lot.

I don't own one and if I did it would be a small one (large enough so that cat wouldn't eat it) and non-poisonous.

I found this at some random site while searching...

Do you like snakes sb?

Seeing that they and I have crossed our paths in the most unlikely circumstances

How?

Mmmm, snake, it's what having you for dinner.

When I finally say something serious you have to say something stupid.

Though it does not seem like it I believe snakes are more intelligent then they put on.

It seems that snakes like you a lot sb.

Do you know much about the snake mythology from your country?

Kris, I am talking about the real ones.

"western concept of the snake is evil cunning creature like the snake who seduce eve or whatever"

The Bible and the medieval mentality had much to do with this.

Sucuriju gigante
Hmmmm, interestig ... I wished a program on Nat. Geographic concerning the gigante. I am indeed fasinated by snakes, but they do frighten me to some degree. However, my intrigue with them is legendary LOL!!!!

snakes are not slimy by the way i dont know which idiot came up

They touched the snake in the water I bet you.

Snakes only shed their skin because they are constantly growing, and grow out of their current skins.

It symbolizes rebirth and great things like such...

Mostly that it was considered a free spirit hence it could be taken in any form and could act in anyway.

Well that might sound good to some people, but you think about it...it is a bit disturbing.