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The larger an animal is, the greater our fascination with it. When it comes to reptiles, out of all the monsters there are including, alligators, crocs and komodo dragons, the mighty anaconda still trumps them in the size stakes.
1st off, lets not confuse length with size. The longest recorded snakes are not anacondas but Asian pythons which can have been caught measuring 11 to 12 meters. Anacondas can grow up to 8 - 10 meters lengthy and as wide a man. They are quite powerful and muscular, in contrast to some of their python relatives.
1 of the factors that the anaconda is so massive and powerful is that it has evolved a way to kill it is prey not by utilizing venom, or even by biting. Their prey is literally squeezed to death by those powerful muscles and then eaten when freshly killed.
They are an alpha predator in the sense that they have no recognized predators in the wild. When they are young they can fall prey to hawks or other bigger creatures, but a fully grown anaconda has no known threats apart form man.
Living in the Amazonian rain forests, the green anaconda belongs to a family of non venomous boas ( also named boa constrictors due to the nature of how they kill).
They live mainly in the water and are good swimmers. They occasionally come out of the water but on land they are sluggish movers. their diet plan consists of just about anything that it can catch that's smaller that it. This may well consist of fish, birds, other snakes, rabbits, reptiles and larger animals such as deer, antelopes even jaguars.
There have even been a couple of reported cases where an anaconda has been found to have swallowed a whole man! this is where the reputation of the man-eater comes from. In reality even so these cases are couple of and far in between.
All boas which includes anacondas have a distinct approach for killing. They wrap many coils of their body around the prey. Their massive size stops the prey escaping but they do not crush it to death as some folks mistakenly believe.
Instead they sense the breathing patterns of their catch. When the prey exhales it breath, the anaconda tightens it grip slightly so that on the next breath, the animal is restricted in it's breathing. This has the impact of not only stopping the respiratory function but also growing the blood pressure. The animal either dies by asphyxiation or by heart failure.
Right after wards it is devoured in one piece. Depending on how large the prey is, this may take various days or even weeks.
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