The photograph,taken by a member of a tragedy team checking flood areas by helicopter, has sparked an enormous discussion about whether the pictures are real or basically the work of photo-editing software.
Actually the highly regarde New Straits Times newspaper in Kuala Lumpur has requested viewers to make up their own thoughts about the pictures.
Villagers who declare to have observed the snake state they have given it the name of Nabau,after an early sea snake which can transform itself into the forms of various animals.
People who have analyzed the image of the shape taken from the air have ignored recommendations that it is a log.
As one author asked:'A log can not be that winding,can it?'Some others have recommended it is a speedboat,but this has been ignored because of the rotating wake.
The most typical accusation is that the picture has just been altered on a PC,while Other people complain that the lake is a various colour to the genuine Baleh rover which is a murky dark brown.
But villagers who persist the snake is present claim that pictures of the beast being taken in various parts of the lake verify it is swimming about.
Previously this month researchers unearthed the fossil of a killer snake that was lengthier than a bus,as large as a small vehicle and which could ingest an animal the size of a Big cow.
The 45ft long monster-called Titanoboa-was so larg that it resided on a diet of crocodiles and huge turtles,squeezing them to dying and consuming them whole.
Weighing a remarkable 1.25 tons,it slithered around the tropical jungles of South America 60million yrs ago,just 5 million yrs after the last dinosaurs were destroyed.
Incomplete skeletons of the boa constrictor-like prehistoric monster were seen in a Colombian coal mine by an worldwide team of fossil hunters
