American Anaconda

Anaconda is the bigest snake recognized

Who does not know about Anaconda? Which sometimes comes in a nightmare in the middle of the night.

Anaconda is one of the biggest snake in the world, from the type Eunectus Boaz Nonvenomous. Also known as water boa, the giant of snake who meat eaters, live in warm tropical swampy areas in South America. These snakes spend much time in shallow water, they hide so as not visible by their prey.

Anaconda related to boa constrictors. They born 20 to 40 baby snakes who are born in one time. The biggest specimen ever measured is 25 meters in length and weighs 550 pounds. Other reports, this animal has a length of 35-40 feet, but no specimens for this size like that has been incorporated into the museum and these reports are still not verified.

Spesies who most familiar is the green anaconda, Eunectes Murinus, notable for being one of the world’s largest snakes. Green anacondas can grow to more than 5.21 m in length and weigh 97.5 kg. They are found east of the Andes in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and on the island of Trinidad.

Other anacondas are the yellow anaconda, Eunectes Notaeus, a smaller species found in eastern Bolivia, southern Brazil, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. And the dark spotted anaconda, Eunectes deschauenseei, this is rare of species who has been found in northeastern Brazil and coastal of Guiana, French.

The Bolivian anaconda, Eunectes Beniensis, discovered in 2002 in the flood plains of Bolivia’s Pando province. It was the first anaconda species who has been identified since 1936 and became only the fourth known type of that reptile.

Hunting and Diet

Anacondas are carnivores, meat-eaters. All four this species are aquatic snakes that prey on other aquatic animals, including fish, river fowl, pigs, deer, caiman (a type of crocodilian), birds, fish, rodents like the capybara and agouti and other animals. Some of anacondas preying on livestock animals such as goats and ponies that venture too close to the water.

They mostly hunt at night, they are nocturnal. Anacondas kill by constricting, squeezing the prey until it can no longer breathe. Sometimes they make drown his prey in the water.

Like all snakes, they swallow the prey whole, start from head. Anaconda’s top and bottom jaws are attached to each other with stretchy ligaments, which let the snake swallow animals bigger than itself. Snakes do not chew their food, they digest it with very strong acids II in the snake’s stomach.

After eating a large animal, the anaconda no needs food for a long time and rests for weeks. The young anacondas who called Neonates can care for themselves soon after birth, including hunting but are not defenseless against large predators. They eat small rodents, rats, mice, baby birds, frogs and small fish.

While, encounters between people with anacondas may be dangerous, they do not hunt humans, but they can eat an human. Nevertheless, threat from anacondas is a familiar trope in comics, movies and adventure stories  which usually set in the Amazon’s wild adventure.

Anacondas have also figured prominently in South American folklore, where they are sometimes depicted in mythical as creatures which can shapeshifting who called Encantados. Local communities and some European explorers have given accounts about anacondas as legendary giant snakes who having of much greater proportion than any actual specimen who has been confirmed.