She weighs more than 300lbs, is 25ft long and needs at
least 15 people to hold her.
Now Medusa has slithered into the Guinness World record
books as the world's largest snake living in
captivity.
The massive python, lives in the Edge of Hell haunted
house attraction in Kansas City, eats a 40lb animal about once a
week but could easily eat something weighing more than
100lbs
Medusa's primary diet consists of a combination of
rabbits, hogs and deer, served to her every two weeks.
Staff knows her as the sloppiest eater within attraction,
as she's been known to accidentally bite into herself instead of
her dinner.
Representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records
have verified her new title and she will now join the book for
2013.
Medusa's trainer Larry Elgar claims he isn't intimidated by
the monster python.
He said: 'They've actually cut people out of them, they are
man eaters.
'Fear is just a lack of understanding. I have no fear. I
understand that she can kill me. I've been wrapped up and put
unconscious by a reticulated python that was only 18 feet
long.
'I understand the repercussions, but that's no reason to
fear. That car you drove in has killed more people than anything
else in the world.
But you're not scared when you put your keys in it, are
you?'
Mr Edgar said he bought the eight-year-old snake as a baby
and she's still growing.
He said then ' his snake was 24 inches long, as big as my
finger.'