Anaconda eating... Is this real plz tell me

[rony4u2006]

Anaconda eating... Is this real plz tell me

http://media.pipsip.com/fun/anaconda.jpg

[RWB]

1) If it is real, this photographer is nuts

2) A portion of the snakes body looks strange, almost like it's photochopped a bit.

3) Could not find anything on snopes :(

[Thrax]

Not likely. Accepting that the mammal is about 6 feet long, that snake is atleast 30 feet long, putting it close to the record for an Anaconda, which is a record, not a regular occurrence.

[primesuspect]

that looks like a zoo enclosure.

[Winga]

The animal in the water is a kangaroo so I assume the origin of the photo is Australia. If that's the case then this snake is a long way from home. The longest snake in Aussie is the Scrub Python. They will grow to 17 feet max.

Unless someones smuggled pet amazonian annaconda escaped years back and grew into this monster, I would take it with a pinch of salt.

[madmat]

It's not a 'roo it's a tapir which is native to South America. If it's a young one it'd be about 4' long.

[Winga]

It's not a 'roo it's a tapir which is native to South America. If it's a young one it'd be about 4' long.

I beg to differ sir....

A tapir has no tail to speak of. The tail's very small and sits flush against it's butt. It's legs are also of equal proportion.
The animal in question has a very long tail and it's front legs are not equal in length to its back legs.

[Leonardo]

The animal in question has a very long tail and it's front legs are not equal in length to its back legs. You tell 'em!:skeptic: You forgot to mention also that the tapir doesn't go "boing, boing, boing" when it runs. OK, now we are all up to speed.

Carry on!

The photo looks about as manipulated as it can get. No such thing as a 50 foot anaconda. No, Kangaroos are not native to South America/Anacondas not native to Australia. That ledge is man made. It's some type of photochopped zoo picture.

[profdlp]

...No such thing as a 50 foot anaconda...
But...but... I saw one once. It was in a movie on TV. (Really late at night.) :buck:

[Justin]

And a moose once bit my sister.

[n_ver_ending]

The thing that does not fly with me is the location...Anacondas normally habitat the Amazon. Brazil, has then all over the place.
A mature Anaconda can eat a human...if it wraps itself around it and squeezes him/her with all its power. The human will be left like a straw.
Don't forget snakes have an above normal capability of swallowing large food.

[madmat]

That's not an anaconda. Been looking at pics of them. Makes me wonder if it's not an Australian costrictor (either boa or python) eating a wallaby.

[profdlp]

'Tis an orca. :mullet:

[RyderOCZ]

What confuses me, is that most snakes (even in captivity, I think) normally would still need to coil around and "be made to believe" that they killed the prey. This thing looks like it has been in the water for some time, or the snake came out of the water after "strangulating" the animal so it could feed. That snake might only be 10-12 feet long and that animal only a mere foot or two.....there is nothing in the picture to scale by.

[Sledgehammer70]

Anacondas have been reported to grow 50' or larger! (http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestSnake.htm)

http://www.extremescience.com/images/dead-anaconda.jpg
http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/2413/anacbarbwire1cv.jpg

[Sledgehammer70]

After a close look in some digital editing programs this looks pretty real... I mean i am able to see the snake rapped around the rocks and it also looks like part of the snake 's muscles are flexing at the edge from pulling the thing up.

[airbornflght]

yeh, who would photochop an image, and be export is to be so huge? i mean, usually they are pretty good size, but no where near the original size.I think it looks fairly real.

maybe some rich dude in Australia has a big ass anaconda, and fluffy got hungry, so the dude had to feed it.