Snake Long

“It would stretch out then coil, ready to strike, then stretch out and coil again. I said, ‘Right, next time it stretches I’m going to go for it.’ It started to stretch out and I just leapt on top of it with both hands behind its head, my knee on its back and the other chaps piled on behind me. It was a struggle for the first 30 seconds or so as it tried to move its head from side to side. It tried to scratch at us then Ash, the head guide, came round the front and grabbed it by the jaws as I lifted it up — wrapping its jaws with tape so it could no longer bite us.”
 — Welsh biologist Niall McCann describes how he and his team wrestled an 18-foot anaconda into submission with their bare hands in Guyana in 2009. It’s one of the longest snakes ever measured. Photos were recently released. Wow!