While this isn’t too far off for green anacondas, there are a few variations that only help prove that this is one of the most interesting species around! When you think of baby snakes, you probably think of them hatching out of their eggs and slithering away. They breeding ball can stay together for up to 4 weeks, and the female can mate with multiple male snakes over that time. Often multiple males will pursue the same female, resulting in a mass of males snakes ‘writhing’ around a female competing for courtship, in what is known as a breeding ball. Up to a dozen males can wrap around a single female in a ‘breeding ball’īetween March and May, male green anaconda seek out females for mating. Why? The male is good protein for an expecting mother, especially in areas with a strong dry season where life can be harder to survive. Green anacondas have been known for cannibalismįemales (the larger of the sexes) have been reported to eat smaller male anacondas. A Caiman measuring 1.5m (5ft) was once found inside an Anaconda! 6. Some of the larger specimens have even been known to take down larger mammals, such as deer. They’re anything but picky eatersīirds, fish, other reptiles, and even mammals-green anacondas are not picky when it comes to their next meal. After a big meal, it doesn’t need to feed again for weeks. It will coil around prey, squeeze it until it suffocates and then consume the body whole.įor larger prey, it can unhinge its own jaw to widen the opening and consume the animals body, which then breaks down inside the anaconda as it digests it. The green anaconda can unhinge its jaw to stretch its mouth around the body of prey to swallow themĪnaconda don’t chew their food. This, paired with their size, murky coloration, and underwater speed, makes them the perfect ambush predator. These serpents are a type of boa, which means they rely on restriction to suffocate their prey rather than venom. Surprisingly, despite being one of the top predators in South America, green anacondas don’t have any venom in their bite. They’re non-venomous, they constrict prey Still, in comparison to a man, they can grow to huge sizes – like this green anaconda caught in French Guiana.ģ. Therefore reports of 40 foot long anacondas, like in the famous movie, are very much fiction. There has been lots of claims and reports of anacondas measuring over 9m (30 feet) in length, but very little credible evidence.Īlmost all specimens in excess of 6m (20 ft), including a much publicised specimen of 11.36 m (37.3 ft) long are often just skin, without body or parts – and are prone to being stretched. With a weight ranging anywhere from 97.5 kilograms all the way up to 160 kilograms, these water boas can weigh the same as a golf cart. While they may not be the longest snake in the world (although they’re close with record-breaking sizes nearly 6 meters long), the green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world. When it comes to size, this may just be one reptile you don’t want to meet face to face! After all, few snakes can claim to be one of the largest in the world. Green anacondas are the heaviest snakes in the world They prey on a variety of animals both large and small and have few natural predators. The green anaconda’s home countries include Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Trinidad, and even Paraguay. Anacondas are typically solitary, except during mating season. The green anaconda’s eyes are set high on their head, so it can stay mostly submerged under water but still see prey on the surface, or at the side of the water.įemale anaconda are much larger than their male counterpart, demonstrating one of the largest size gaps of vertebrates. Olive green with dark brown or black markingsįish, amphibians, birds, mammals, and other reptilesĨ km/h (5 mph) on land 16 km/h (10 mph) underwaterįound in South America (though also occasionally in the Florida Everglades when one strays too far from home), the green anaconda is a nocturnal predator that spends most of its time in the water. South American countries east of the Andesġ0 years in the wild, 30 years in captivity Swamps, marshes, and streams located in or near tropical rainforests It’s a boa, which means it’s a constrictor which wraps itself around pray forming a constriction coil and is non venomous. It’s the heaviest and one of the longest snakes in the world – reaching over 6m in length. The green anaconda has many names, the giant anaconda, the common anaconda, the common water boa or the sucuri.
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