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Green anacondas are one of the largest snakes in the world. Females are considerably larger than males. They can reach lengths of 30 feet (9 meters), diameters of 12 inches (30.5 centimeters) and can weigh 550 pounds (250 kilograms).
- What is the largest anaconda ever found?
- Can an anaconda be a pet?
- Are anacondas aggressive?
- Do anacondas bite you?
- What eats an anaconda?
- Can a human outrun an anaconda?
- What is the lifespan of a anaconda?
- How fast do anacondas grow?
- How do anacondas give birth?
- How strong is an anaconda bite?
- How much force can an anaconda squeeze?
- Why do anacondas have fangs?
What is the largest anaconda ever found?
Green anacondas are the heaviest snakes in the world. The heaviest anaconda ever recorded was 227 kilograms. This massive snake was 8.43 metres long, with a girth of 1.11 metres. While the reticulated python is longer, it's also slender.
Can an anaconda be a pet?
Captive-bred anacondas can make calm, tractable pets when raised properly, but they do get large, and their strength should be respected. This is not a species for anyone under the age of 18 or for anyone who does not have a reasonable amount of experience working with large constrictors.
Are anacondas aggressive?
In the wild, green anacondas are not particularly aggressive. In Venezuela, they are captured easily during the day by herpetologists who, in small groups, merely walk up to the snakes and carry them off. ... Green anacondas mate in or very near the water.
Do anacondas bite you?
Anacondas bite their prey with their sharp teeth, hold on with their powerful jaws and pull them under water. The victim may drown first or it may be squeezed to death in the Anaconda's muscular coils. Anacondas, true to the Boa family, constrict their hapless victims to death.
What eats an anaconda?
Large groups of piranhas may gang up on an older, weaker anaconda near the end of its life. Caimans, which are smaller members of the alligator family may also prey on smaller or weaker anacondas, although, when the anaconda is full grown, it is known to prey on the caiman.
Can a human outrun an anaconda?
Although a human can technically outrun an attacking snake, we certainly are not fast enough to avoid a strike. The strike speed of an average snake is 1/10th of a second, so if the snake feels threatened and you're the threat and within strike range, you WILL be bitten.
What is the lifespan of a anaconda?
The largest litter on record was 82 young. Their average life span in the wild is about 10 years. However, they live much longer in human care, with some reports of anacondas living into their late 20s.
How fast do anacondas grow?
They feed mainly on frogs and fish until they have grown enough to hunt larger prey. Because of their relatively small size at birth, many anaconda babies are prey to other animals. Anacondas grow quickly, until they reach sexual maturity at three to six years of age.
How do anacondas give birth?
Like all boas, anacondas do not lay eggs; instead, they give birth to live young. The young are attached to a yolk sac and surrounded by a clear membrane, not a shell, as they develop in their mother's body.
How strong is an anaconda bite?
Analysis of the jaw bones show that Titanoboa could crush its prey with a jaw force of 400 pounds per square inch. (Modern estimates of the bite of an anaconda top this, however, at 900 psi.)
How much force can an anaconda squeeze?
Prior studies determined that the anaconda's possible crush force is 90 pounds per square inch. That's comparable to an elephant sitting on your chest. We used tug-boat ropes to test the suit beforehand between trucks. It withstood squeezing at 90 psi.
Why do anacondas have fangs?
To eat their food, anacondas use their body to restrict their prey and then swallow the prey without needing to chew. Despite carrying no venom, anacondas can still bite – they do have fangs, after all.
