Spanish explorers also mention reports of snakes 80 feet devouring animals as large as oxen and horses. This snake obviously a loud sleeper ,makes noises while resting ,was blackish in colour and seemingly much larger than the Anaconda sightings. Ĭolonel Fawcett also writed about an complete other species of Giant snake the was dubbed the 'Dormidera', this giant snake was found in the Araquaya and Tocantin-basins. Fawcett also describes enormous trails in the sandy banks,that we're seen and is stated by inland rubber pickers and indians who told stories about these giants which leave trails in the swampy riverbanks of five to six foot wide, the Brazilian Boundary Commission mentioned also comparable sightings of these trails what had to be, a snake of monstrous size, of at least 80 foot in length. A kind of snake with that dimensions would weigh several thousand pounds and would impossible to bring along from the jungle if you don't have enough room on a boat or some carrier.Ĭol. Nevertheless, Fawcett had no way to carry the specimen back from the interior. The diameter of the snake's body was relatively small, only twelve inches.

In its dying throes the snake thrashed water all around the boat. Fawcett opened fire, hitting the creature in the spine. Colonel Fawcett with his native crew, drifted along the Rio Abuna close to the Rio Negro region when he spotted a great triangular serpentine head appearing at the bow of the boat.

The welknown observer, Colonel Percy Fawcett's from Royal Geographic Society's contribution dated from 1906 is the most commonly mentioned reported encounter of a anaconda pushing 62 feet long. Posing a threat for the human community, These were probably the last giants of serpents, that are so formidably equipped with hundreds of pounds powerful muscles and speed, that a full grown man has no chance of survival, when encountering one of these giant reptilian predators. There are reports of anacondas 50-100 feet long. It seemed true that in recent history, giant snakes in South-America were pretty common. Some of the tales are very well documented, and told on from generations on. Native tribes in the region from Surinam, the Guyana's till the Eastern Ecuador region tells us tales about, gigantic proported snakes who would be able to tackle down a whole group of hunters in an instant. The Giant Anaconda stories around the Amazon-basin,dated since the last centuries.

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