Your Heart Will Skip A Beat When You See The Video Of This Gargantuan Anaconda

Written by Kirstin Harrington
Updated: November 17, 2023
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These olive-green anacondas have similar patches with yellow centers down their flanks and dark oval markings along their spines. They have black and yellow scales on their belly. Moreover, they have two dark bands that extend from their eyes and angle toward their jaws. 

They can blend in with the moist, heavy vegetation of their habitat thanks to the camouflage provided by their color and pattern. Aquatic life suits green anacondas just fine, though they do spend time on land.

For improved seeing and breathing when swimming in the water, these serpents have their eyes and nose on top of their heads. Where there is a seasonal flood, anacondas must locate water during the dry season or they must tunnel into the mud.

One of the biggest snakes in the world is the green anaconda. Males are much smaller than females. They can weigh 550 pounds and grow to 30-foot lengths and 12-inch diameters. Because of their highly developed chemosensory abilities, anacondas can sense chemical signals coming from adjacent creatures with the use of their tongues. 

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There have been about 11 sightings in Florida of the green anaconda, the largest species of snake in the world, with some individuals reaching lengths of up to 30 feet and weighing up to 550 pounds.

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During the mating season, males also employ this capacity to recognize pheromones from females. To detect chemical odors in the air, they will flutter their tongues. Anacondas can also recognize the presence of other creatures through vibrations and by identifying heat signatures with the use of pit organs on their top lip.

Anaconda Eating Habits And Lifestyle

Green anacondas are predators, just like all snakes. The non-venomous constrictors known as green anacondas are members of the boa family. They seize their victim with their powerful teeth, smother it with their powerful bodies, and then consume it whole. 

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A Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), which is especially partial to flooded grassland.

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Like other snakes, they can separate their jaw to ingest anything that is considerably larger than they are, although they are cautious while handling huge prey because of the potential for harm. Except for mating females, green anacondas have a slow metabolic rate.

They are cunning apex predators that consume many different types of prey. Fish, fowl, and small mammals are frequently consumed by juveniles. Mature anacondas can eat considerably larger creatures, such as deer, capybara, caimans, and huge birds. 

Males can occasionally be eaten by females, mainly during the breeding season. Among the few snakes capable of eating a human because they’re so big is the green anaconda, but this is highly uncommon. In the wild, they live an average of 10 years. Anacondas are known to live into their late 20s when kept in human care!

How Large Do Anacondas Get?

The four types of anacondas are green anacondas, yellow anacondas, dark-spotted anacondas, and Bolivian anacondas.

There are four types of anacondas worldwide: green anacondas, yellow anacondas, dark-spotted anacondas, and Bolivian anacondas. The largest of these is the green anaconda. While they indeed can grow to massive sizes–up to 30 feet long, 550 pounds heavy, and 12 inches in diameter–the average size of one is 15.5 feet long for a female and 9 feet long for a male. The average weight is 70 to 150 pounds.

The average length of a yellow anaconda is from 11 to 715 feet with a max of 15 feet. They can weigh from 55 to 77 pounds. Dark-spotted anacondas, which are native to Brazil and French Guiana, measure 4-7 feet long for males and 4-7.5 feet for females. This species has a less bulky body so weighs less on average than green or yellow anacondas. Bolivian anacondas, which are closely related to dark-spotted anacondas, reach lengths of 10 to 14 feet and can weigh from 50 to 70 pounds.

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Kirstin is a writer at A-Z Animals primarily covering animals, news topics, fun places, and helpful tips. Kirstin has been writing on a variety of topics for over five years. She has her real estate license, along with an associates degree in another field. A resident of Minnesota, Kirstin treats her two cats (Spook and Finlay) like the children they are. She never misses an opportunity to explore a thrift store with a coffee in hand, especially if it’s a cold autumn day!

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