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A perennial theme, reptiles have been featured over the past ten years in box-office hits and bombs alike as dinosaurs (Jurassic Park and The Lost World), crocodiles, and snakes (Anaconda).
Yet arguably the most terrifying creature to have ever existed was the Titanoboa, a gigantic snake that lived millions of years ago in modern South America, known to grow up to 12.8m long and weigh up to 1135kg.
When I left the army, one of the snake parks, in fact, the largest snake park in South Africa at that time, found me one day and said: " We heard about you."
The Amazon basin is home to one of the largest variety of snake species found anywhere in the world, but I was there to find just one, the giant anaconda.
And as it ended up, I spent my most important training period for 6 years at that park where I learned in detail about exotic snakes from all over the world and worked with exotic snakes in a real close-up.