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The snakes use its teeth and powerful jaws to hold onto the prey while their massive and extremely muscular body wrap around the prey to suffocate or drown it. They also attack and eat livestock or pets like sheep and dogs and in rare cases, these large constrictors are also known to attack humans. The larger green anaconda snakes prey upon animals as big as deer, capybara (a giant rodent), tapirs and even full-grown spectacled caimans and jaguars, they are also cannibalistic with females often feeding on the smaller male green anacondas. The green anaconda feeds on a variety of prey according to their size, with smaller specimens eating mainly fish like piranhas and other small vertebrates like turtles and birds, they even climb trees to raid bird nests. The species average lifespan is about 10 years but may exceed 30 years. The species is known by other common names including anaconda, common anaconda, and water boa, and also several local names like the Spanish term mata toro (it means literally 'bull killer') or sucuri in the Tupi language among many others. Its scientific name Eunectes murinus derives from the Greek word 'ευνήκτης' meaning 'good swimmer' and the Latin 'murinus' meaning 'of mice' since it was thought they preyed on mice. Their head is relatively small sized when compared to the thick body with distinctive orange-yellow striping on the sides. The green anaconda coloring is typically an olive green background with oval black spots running down the back and smaller oval spots with yellow centers along the sides, providing excellent camouflage. They have the eyes and nostrils located on top of their heads enabling it to breathe and see while they remain nearly completely submerged, allowing the anaconda to lay in wait for their unsuspecting prey. These massive snakes are clumsy on land because of their sheer weight, but they are sleek and stealthy when in the water.

The green anaconda also exhibits the greatest sexual dimorphism between the sexes of any terrestrial vertebrate, females dwarf males in length and are almost 5 times heavier. It's the considered the heaviest snake and only the reticulated python grows slightly longer than the green anaconda but it weighs much less, due to the enormous girth of the anaconda making it almost twice as heavy. Green anacondas grow as long as 29 feet, with a girth of 12 inches (30 centimeters) in diameter and weigh as much as 550 pounds, this undoubtedly one of the world’s largest snakes and much larger than their cousin the yellow anaconda ( Eunectes notaeus). Either in the seasonally flooded savanna, such as Llanos grasslands of Colombia and Venezuela or in the rivers of the vast Amazon and Orinoco basins. This is a semi-aquatic non-venomous snake species, the green anaconda is typically found in swamps, marshes and slow-moving rivers and streams. They are also found on the island of Trinidad off the Venezuelan north-east coast. Snakes squeeze their prey before eating them.The green anaconda ( Eunectes murinus) lives throughout the tropical South America, mostly found east of the Andes through the Amazon and Orinoco river basins, as well as in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, the Northern regions of Bolivia, north-east Peru, Guyana and French Guiana. They can eat almost anything like fish, birds, other reptiles and large mammals including capybaras, tapirs and deer. It is not known why it does not want to put its food down but anacondas are known to vomit food quickly if they are disturbed or frightened to aid mobility.Ī green anaconda can grow up to 22ft but there have been reports of anacondas reaching sizes up to 40ft. The snake took about 90 seconds to get rid of its previous meal. The giant rodent, related to the guinea pig and weighing up to 66kg (145lb), is native to South America and is the anaconda’s favorite prey. The animal can be seen slowly emerging as the anaconda writhes in the water.Īlthough when the video was posted online, it suggested the unlucky creature was a cow, commentators debated whether it was actually a capybara. The pleasant thing to do now is to vomit.

Because the prey is so large and it is assumed that it eats when it is not hungry, the amount of food consumed is not as much as when it is empty. The footage shows the anaconda regurgitating a completely undigested animal.

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It is a silent hunter, killing prey by squeezing and can digest very large prey.īut the following scene is unfortunate, because greed tries to swallow large prey and the results are full of surprises.įootage of a giant snake devouring an entire animal in the Brazilian jungle has become an unexpected online hit – despite its grisly content. The anaconda is a giant python species of the world. After devouring a large meal, this anaconda probably decided it wasn’t hungry after all.