In a telephone interview with the T&T Guardian yesterday, Seyjagat said the anaconda would be the largest one he had ever seen in person, adding that in the 1980s he captured a 14-foot anaconda in Matura, along the northeast coast of Trinidad. Its widest part measures 32 inches in circumference but despite speculation that it was pregnant, an ultrasound on Wednesday showed no signs of pregnancy. Since its captured it has remained at the zoo, where it is being kept in a glass and concrete enclosure and is receiving regular veterinary care. It was captured by security guards on patrol near a private road opposite the Caroni cremation site. Seyjagat, who was born in T&T and was formerly the senior keeper at the Emperor Valley Zoo, will return to Trinidad on Tuesday to inspect the snake, which is 17 feet, nine inches long. Herpetologist and curator at the National?Aquarium in Baltimore, USA, John Seyjagat, believes the 220-pound anaconda discovered in Caroni on December 30 could be one of the largest snakes seen in the southern hemisphere within the last 30 to 40 years.
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