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Recent flooding in Thailand and Malaysia has produced what is truly one of the most stunning clips of a snake that we have ever seen. This footage of a reticulated python swimming in floodwaters in Pattani, Thailand has stunned pretty much anyone who has seen it because this might be the largest snake we’ve ever seen and I am using the royal ‘we’ here as this might be the biggest python on earth at this very moment.
Typically, in clips like this the perspective is skewed making the creature look larger than it is. That does not appear to be the case here where the massive reticulated python which can be seen swimming in the floodwaters in Southern Thailand looks to have the girth of a storm drain.
A clip of the snake swimming in the floodwaters has exploded on social media, being viewed over 10M times on TikTok and going viral across X and Instagram as well. I try and avoid hyperbole as much as possible here at BroBible but this really might be the largest snake I’ve ever seen in my life:
If that TikTok clip isn’t working for you the same clip can be seen on the Bangkok Post’s YouTube channel:
The top comment on TikTok astutely calls out the similarity between the reticulated python in this clip, which is the longest snake species in the world and has been measured at almost 33-feet-long, and the ‘basilisk’ inside the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. While the latter is a make believe creature the snake we see in this clip is of such epic proportions it’s impossible to not compare it to imaginary creatures.
A snake that size is fully capable of devouring human beings. Make no mistake about it. Two women in Indonesia were eaten by snakes within a month’s span earlier this year and those snakes were presumably smaller than the one seen above in Thailand
Southern Thailand has been experiencing some of its worst flooding in decades and according to reports there have beeen 25 confirmed deaths so far due to landslides and flash flooding.