of fishermen pulled it out of the river water — nearly getting the animal stressed
to the point of rearing its enormous head and swallowing them all.The group —
Sirlei Oliveira, husband Betinho Borges and friend Rodrigo Santos — were
boating down the Santa Maria river, in the southwestern state of Mato Grosso
do Sul, when they came across the huge snake, reported O News reported.
The serpent, estimated to be at least 17 feet, is seen moving away from the
tiny boat, its belly appearing full of what must have been a massive lunch not
long earlier. Then Borges begins to prod the anaconda with a wooden oar as
the snake attempts to get away from him. The snake thrashes around trying to get away from the man
'Leave it! Oh my god!' yells a hysterical Oliveira in Portuguese as her husband
continues to torment the yellow anaconda.
The snake gets away momentarily, swimming away from the group for a few
seconds before the boat turns around and continues to chase it.
'Grab it, dude, grab it!' instigate Borges as his buddy Santos tries to catch the
snake by its tail.
Then Borges gets over to the boat control — and brazenly begins to take off as
Santos holds on to the snake, pulling the huge animal as it thrashes around trying
to get away.
Santos eventually lets go of the snake and it swims away to freedom.
Environmental police in Mato Grosso do Sul have fined each torturer the
equivalent of $600.
They have also been charged with a crime and face up to a year and a half
in jail if they're convicted under an environmental law that proscribes the
chasing or hunting of wildlife without a license, according to O Correio.The anaconda can be seen trying to hide as one of the men pull it by
its tail
The couple's lawyer, Amilton Ferreira de Almeida, claimed there was 'no
crime committed.'
'The video shows they didn't intend on committing a crime,' the lawyer told O
Correio about couple's footage, which was posted to Facebook on Tuesday.
'For it to be a crime, they must have been intent.
'They wanted to show how nature is, how the animal behaves — but they had
no malice,' the lawyer adds. 'There was guilt, yes, negligence and recklessness,
but not intent.'
But for Major Edmilson Queiroz, of the state's environmental police, being
ignorant of the law isn't an excuse.
'The animal's place is to be quiet in nature, and a man's place is to be quiet
in his corner, each one playing their role in nature,' Queiroz told O Correio.
'Don't expose the animals to this as if it's a good thing,' he said of the publicity
the video has gotten. 'This attitude is unnecessary — to try to promote yourself
at the expense of the animal.
Known in Brazil as 'sucuri,' the species shows in the video was identified by
wildlife experts as the yellow anaconda — one of the smallest cousins in the
family of ginormous South American snakes.
source: http://odunlade.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-moment-gigantic-anaconda-is-pulled.html
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