Overview
- Guinness World Records verified the reticulated python, nicknamed Ibu Baron, at 7.22 meters head to tail after a January 18 survey in Sulawesi’s Maros region.
- The animal weighed 96.5 kilograms on heavy-duty scales, with handlers noting she had not recently eaten.
- Licensed handler Diaz Nugraha led the measurement using professional tools as photographer Radu Frentiu documented the process for verification.
- Guinness discourages sedation for wildlife assessments, and the team followed non-sedative protocols due to health risks for large reptiles.
- Conservationists link rising human–python encounters to habitat loss and declining prey, and they hope the verified case supports protection efforts after a previous 6.95-meter wild record set in 1999.