A Romanian explorer and photographer, Radu Fren\u021biu, found the longest wild snake in the world on an island in the Indonesian archipelago. The female python, measuring 7.22 meters, was registered in the Guinness World Records.<\/p>\n
“If placed across a standard FIFA goal, this prodigious python would occupy essentially the entire width from post to post. Alternatively, it is around the length of six-and-a-half shopping carts\/trolleys in a row,” reads the official press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n None of the python family are venomous, but they can kill by coiling around their victims and asphyxiating them. As a result, when reticulated pythons do come into the vicinity of an inhabited area, they tend to be exterminated immediately, and more generally they are also hunted as a source of bushmeat.<\/p>\n Radu Fren\u021biu said he did not fear the 97 kg reptile, named \u201cIbu Baron\u201d (\u201cThe Baroness\u201d), and that he had the help of locals and zoologists.<\/p>\n \u201cI have a whole team of wonderful local people who help me and whom I can always rely on. Success is never the achievement of one person alone. If you hear someone boasting on their own, that will never be the case. It is always the merit of a team, and I want to thank most of all my Indonesian friends,\u201d said Fren\u021biu, who has been living in Indonesia for almost 20 years, cited by Digi24<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n