Scientific Name:
Eunectes murinus
General Description:
Green Anaconda is the heaviest and one of the longest known surviving snake species arriving at a length of up to 5.21 m (17.1 ft) long. More commonplace mature examples purportedly can run up to 5 m (16.4 ft) with grown-up females with a mean length of about 4.6 m (15.1 ft). Loads are less very much examined, however purportedly range from 30 to 70 kg (66 to 154 lb) in a run of the mill grown-up.
Reports of anacondas 11–12 m (35–40 ft) or considerably longer additionally exist yet such cases should be viewed with alert as no examples of such lengths have at any point been stored in an exhibition hall and hard proof is deficient.
Habitat:
It is found in South America east of the Andes, in countries including Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, the island of Trinidad, and as far south as northern Paraguay.
Diet:
They are primarily aquatic and eat a wide variety of prey, almost anything they can manage to overpower including fish, amphibians, birds, a variety of mammals, and other reptiles. Particularly large anacondas may consume large prey such as tapirs, deer, capybaras, and caimans. A few examples of their prey include broad-snouted caimans, wattled jacanas, capybaras, red-rumped agoutis, collared peccaries, South American tapirs, red side-necked turtles, and northern pudús.
Historical Record:
The skin of one specimen, stretched to 10 m (32.8 ft), has been preserved in the Instituto Butantan in São Paulo and is reported to have come from an anaconda of 7.6 m (24.9 ft) in length. While in Colombia in 1978, herpetologist William W. Lamar had an encounter with a large female specimen 7.5 m (24.6 ft) long, estimated to weigh between 136 and 180 kg.
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