Longest fast by a snake
- Who
- Okinawa habu Trimeresurus flavoviridis
- Where
- Japan
- When
- 10 September 1977
The longest fast (time undergone without eating) recorded for any snake was over three years. This was documented for a specimen of the Okinawa habu Trimeresurus flavoviridis – a highly venomous species of Asian pit viper – during a monitored fasting experiment begun on 10 September 1977 at Japan's Amami Kanko Pit Viper Centre in Naze City, Kagoshima Prefecture.