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well i’m sure the villagers will be thinking more about their livestock (and perhaps children’s) safety.

Problem with killing snakes is they eat rodents and insects. Expect to see new infections in regions there snakes extinct.

How is this worse than abortion… Boo hoo over a snake but not a babys life… How sad

If the snake would have rejected her babies and killed them, that is fine, it is a natural part of life. If a mother rejects her baby and kills it, it is fine it is a natural part of life. if villagers storm a pregnant woman and kill her baby, that is not a natural action, that is a crime.

how sad. Unfortunately those 7 pictures were more entertaining then the 3 anaconda movies.

Anthony Pittarelli

they probably ate the snakes afterwards…savages!!

bob, get a life. or more appropriately, some perspective on life.

Nothing more annoying that blind environmentalists decrying the actions of people in places they’ve never lived. I second the first comment about worrying about kids and livestock/livelihood..especially since it looks like the snake was somewhere near the homes.

That snake looks to be over 25′ long! It could very easily have killed and eaten the small child pictured next to it! When you talk “rodents,” that snake would be naturally be hunting boy/dog sized “rodents,” not just rats and insects. Let the little snakes get the little critters. I’m with the folks pictured there…kill the big snake!

Awww Bob - you’d love to have 70 anacondas growing up in your front yard, wouldn’t you?

Ummm…did anyone notice the size of that thing? Would it have been any better if it was a panther attacking the village. Now multiply that by 70. Can you imagine what life would be like with 70 of those things slithering around? Of course, yes, its expected for nature to take its course and it is highly unlikely that all seventy will survive to that size, but regardless, having one that size is scary enough for me to leave town, but unfortunately for the people living there its not exactly an option. Yes its sad, boohoo, but life is survival of the fittest. The village can either eat or be eaten. Yay Darwinism.

IF I’m not mistaken, this is Suriname. Either you eat the Anaconda, or the Anaconda eats YOU ! There is nothing in between. These don’t eat rodents, these eat dogs, goats, and if none available, eat your childeren ! This village is several hours away by air from the nearest town…

A snake of this size eats maybe one goat or dog to last them YEARS! It’s not like people are going to be picked off one at a time over short period of time like in the Anaconda movies or Snakes on a Plane, where most of you seem to be getting your information to base your argument on.

A snake will avoid people if it can help it. They are often too big to eat and are dangerous prey to hunt. People are attentive and keep an eye on their children. From a strictly zoological point of view, if an organism, human or not, lets their offspring run out into the undergrowth or don’t keep alert in a region where large snakes can be found (Notice I didn’t say large snakes where common.) then those organism’s offspring are not going to last long thanks to the stupidity of the parent. If the organism is intelligent, as these people who have to live in this habitat most definitely would be, unlike certain people who’s worst nightmare is the coffee machine getting jammed, the amount of offspring lost to snake attacks, which are slim to none as it is, (4 deaths by constrictors worldwide, including people who keep them as pets.) will be minimal.
The anaconda’s Latin name derives from the Greek word that means ‘good swimmer.’ Anacondas are ambush hunters who use water as camouflage. (Their marking sort of indicates this.) An anaconda is not going to just sneak into somebody’s house and eat their children. Not unless they live in a ravine.

Plus, as anyone who payed attention in biology class could tell you, when an animal has a large amount of offspring it is because the likelihood of the offspring is slim through predators as competitors.(Many snakes are cannibals.)Anaconda 3 is not a documentary: the offspring who do survive will rarely ever reach a size that allows them to eat people.
I trust that from now on people will base their arguments on actual scientific information as opposed to unscientific whims. I would be very interested in continuing this debate if anyone is interested.

I’d absolutely love 70 Anacondas in my front yard! Whilst understandable that this happened considering the location,as a snake lover I find it terribly sad to see.

Good post Molly!

Bombleman,most uneducated post on here so far! Read up!

Maybe if you live in a country where this can be controlled humanly, there are other options to getting rid of these snakes (eg. zoo or some safe house for them), but when you live in these parts of the world ( 3rd world), they dont have the luxury of finding a suitable environment for the snakes. Hence, killing them for there own safety IS their only option!

I have a friend with 5 foot python. Last week the snake got out of it’s cage two nights in a row and my buddy woke up to the snake lying parallel next to his body. Fearing the snake had somethign wrong with it, he took it to the vet. The vet advised donating the snake to a zoo or having it put to sleep. Sounds odd huh. Well it turns out that the snake had been sizing him up by stretching his body along side my friend to see if he was big enough to eat him.

Molly is somewhat correct. A constrictor of this size will have several large meals in a one year period. This is a large ambush predator-predator being a key word here. Normally submerged in water close to shore this snake when hungry will strike at just about anything that is warm blooded, exhaling carbon dioxide and within certain size limits. The strike alone (which will be to the face)can be powerful enough to break a strong man’s neck.
Do not sit in front of your computer making value judgements about people who live in and under much different circumstances than yourself.

Amazing story Tim! Next time though, don’t copy paste your fake stories off snopes.com ;P

http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/measured.asp

Thank you Barry!

A refreshingly well made post backed up by logic Steve. The snake could still pose a danger, I’m not denying that. Anaconda’s eyesight is quite poor and could readily attack a person within the same size limit as a hog, deer or caiman. But there are 4 deaths per year worldwide by constrictors. 4! Compare that to the amount of people killed by cars each year: 41,611. Ok, in the area where these people live, that statistic means less than to metropolitans. But like people who have learned to look both ways, these people will be smart enough to avoid situations that put them in danger.

(An interesting fact: Snakes detect living things through a heat-sensitive membrane on their snout and with their acute sense of smell. snakes can’t detect carbon dioxide.)

A very good point MOE MOE MONKEY. Thanks for bringing it up! The issue here isn’t that a snake was killed, but that this was the only option these people had in order to insure their safety.

The world needs snakes, they perform a valuable service.
Humans on the other hand, do nothing to improve the planet.

Some of you really need to get out and se whats true for yourselves. Molly, don’t so much attention to what your biology prof. says, NONE of the creatures in question read those books. I work with tem every day and please believe me when I say, animals are ANIMALS, they’ll do as they damned well please and play by no set rules mankind establishes and thinks they have discovered. I see ranges in the size of litters, broods, clutches etc. all in the same locations (geographically) all over the board, only the averages are constant and times of feast or famine are involantary causes of subsequent population adjustments. Predators in particular are excellent at conforming and making necessary changes for survival or more frequently, to flourish.
While it may be a large ?? litter?? of serpents, the likelihood that they all survive is particularly limited to the two legged predators as well I’ll bet.
By the way, Molly, how many folks do you suppose live around snakes llike that one that get to do a lot of reporting? I’d don’t think theres any man eating snake epidemic, however, there is a great chance of losing a kid the size of te poser to a snake anywhere near that size if the opportunity arose. I’d be more interested to hear from those who deal with the behemeth snakes on a day to day basis and not for a livelihood (herpitoligist). The affects of being in the same procemity to them would be enlilghtening to hear first hand.

this is so sad but to tell u the truth only about 16 of those babies would have made it to the wild

yea right i would like to see any body that said they wouldnt kill it be placed in the same village with that snake i bet they would be thinking diffrently than