Green Anaconda

(Eunectes murinus) Also called the giant emerald emerald snake, common anaconda, also known as common sucuri or water boa, is a boa species within South America. This is one of the most massive and the most long known snake species. There are no Subspecies are known at present. Like all boas is not a venomous constrictor.

“Anaconda” is a term used to describe the snake ” anaconda” typically refers to this particular species, however the term can also be applied to other species belonging to the family Eunectes. The fossils of the snake go in early Late Pleistocene in the Gruta do Urso area.

Behavior

The Hato El Cedral

The mostly night-time anacondas spend their entire lives in or near water. They are able to achieve high speeds while swimming. They usually float below on the waters surface and keep their snouts atop the water. When prey comes by or stops for a take a drink, anaconda bites (without chewing or swallowing the food) and wraps itself around it, wrapping its body. The snake will then contract until it’s suffocated its prey.

Feeding

Senckenberg Museum Exhibit of a Capybara ( Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris ) being taken in by a green anaconda

Primarily aquatic green anaconda are predators that are apex, and eat many different prey species and almost everything they can conquer, which includes amphibians, fish as well as a variety of mammals, as well as other reptiles.

Furthermore,

Particularly large green anaconda are known to consume large prey like deer, tapirs and jaguars and caimans, however these large-sized meals aren’t frequently consumed.

Juvenile green anaconda eat prey, such as small birds, and young caimans that range from 40 to 70 grams in weight. As they grow their diets become more complicated.

More so,

The availability of prey is greater in the grasslands than in the rivers basins. Green anacondas found in both habitats have been observed to take on large prey species typically in the range of 14% to 50% of their own mass.

Some instances of the prey they eat are broad-snouted caimans spectacled caimans, smooth-fronted caimans jacanas, capybaras and red-rumped agoutis and collared peccaries.

Hence,

South American tapirs, boa constrictors brown-banded water snakes green Iguanas, cryptic golden Tegus scorpion mud turtles gibba turtles and Arrau turtles, savanna-side-necked turtles red side-necked turtles Northern pudus.