A large green anaconda will feed on larger prey like tapir, deer, capybaras and caimans. Green anacondas eat all kinds of animals such as fish, rats, turtles and other cold blooded animals. it will go several weeks – sometimes for a few months – without food. After swallowing an animal, it may take several weeks for it to completely digest its meal. Their jaws are held together by elastic ligaments which allow its mouth to be opened much wider than the size of its head. Finally the creature will stop breathing and the green anaconda will swallow its dinner whole. Then it will coil around their prey tightly with its massive body. They do not want their dinner to see them! When their meal comes near to drink some water by the stream, the hungry green anaconda will snatch the animal with its jaws. Green Anacondas tend to float at the surface of the water with the snout barely poking out. They spend more of their time in the water than any other boa. It’s also why green anaconda are sometimes called Water Boas. That’s why green anacondas (which are active at night) prefer to live in or near the water. They are quite slow and clumsy on land but when they are in the water they are extremely fast. They enjoy most the tropical rainforests of the Amazon. They live in swamps, low land which gets flooded when it rains and slow-moving streams. Green anacondas are found in South America in countries east of the Andes, including places like Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, the island of Trinidad and as far south as northern Paraguay. Brazilian Soldiers Tackling A Green Anaconda This allows the snake to see out of the water while staying completely under the water to attack their prey. Their eyes and nostrils are high on top of the head. They have quite a small head compared to the size of their body. These black blotches help them to camouflage very well into the thick forests.
#Anaconda length skin
They have olive green skin with a pattern of black blotches across their entire bodies. The longest and heaviest scientifically recorded green anaconda was a female green anaconda was 5.21 metres long (17 feet) but weighing only 97.5 kilograms (215 lb). The Green Anaconda can be more than 5 metres long (16 feet) and it can weigh more than 227 kilogram (500 lb) and measure more than 30 centimetre (1 foot) in diameter.
Although the Reticulated Python is the longest snake in the world, reaching more than 8.7 metres (29 feet) in length, it is nowhere near as heavy as the Green Anaconda. They are also among the largest snakes in the world. The Green Anaconda is a non venomous snake, and the heaviest snake in the world.
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