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Can you compare the snake and the boa constrictor? Surely, every Ukrainian or Russian will answer this question in the negative, because, according to their experience, snakes are not more than one meter long, which compared with a boa constrictor can be here.
However, the other day a resident of the Ukrainian village of Shishki, Poltava region Sergei Solovyov faced a snake that was 2.4 meters long, and weighed more than 3.5 kilograms. Of course, and in this case the giant far from a boa constrictor, but still …
Such a handsome man, the author of the picture writes, was sitting on a tree and, judging throughout, did not even expect a meeting with a person who disturbed his measured life. After all, the reptile had not only to catch, but still show to specialists, measure and weigh before than let it go free again.
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Experts from the Biodiversity and Biosafety Department The Ministry of Nature of Ukraine confirmed that this is really so, moreover, a female. True, such huge sizes such snakes reach extremely rare, what exactly do females differ in gigantism.
By the way, in Ukraine in the old days, snakes were taught, because they perfectly caught mice, coping with this task much better than a cat. And in Russia it was considered a sin to kill and even drive away already, if he creeps into the house, on the contrary, he was given all sorts of honors, let’s say they watered milk. It is believed that it is not only safe for man, he is able to perform even a protective role. For example, if a man will fall asleep in the forest and he will notice this, he will not let him to the sleeping not a single poisonous snake …
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