No animal was harmed during the making of this video. Fluffy is hand-reared, tame, and in a top zoo. Video shows Fluffy, a reticulated python, Python reticulates. She is considered the world's largest exhibited snake. Fluffy is over 24 feet long, 300 pounds, and 15 years old. Fluffy's waist is the size of a watermelon. Fluffy may soon be in the official record books as the longest snake to be raised in captivity. Officials with the Guinness Book of World Records visited the Columbus Zoo in October 2009 to measure her. The record-holding longest snake died last year. Results are awaited. Fluffy is a sweet snake with a wonderful disposition. The zoo keepers make moving her look easy. However, they are highly trained professionals. For an untrained person, handling a potentially harmful snake could be dangerous. Both reaching for and letting loose a harmful snake could be life-threatening. Many snakes are strong with instant reflexes. Pythons, for example, can strike and constrict with lightening speed. Fluffy is shown during an enrichment session, when she is allowed to exercise and explore. She does this in the world's largest indoor pachyderm exhibit (a secure location). These unusual videos show an active snake exhibiting a full range of behavior-swimming, walking, and climbing (the videos below also show Fluffy instantly striking, coiling, attacking, and engulfing prey). In a way, she is on the loose. Two people have to be in with Fluffy at once and these videos show <b>...</b>
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