The Anaconda

This carnivorous, non-venomous snake is, by far, the largest snake in the world. Weighing a whopping 550 pounds (227 kilograms), it dominates its habit. These snakes grow to the length of 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters), which is about the length of the average school bus.

The anaconda lives in the amazon rain forest. There is a wide range of prey for the grown anaconda there, pretty much anything it can catch. In youth, anacondas usually eat smaller things like frogs, rodents, and fish (these are things that a full grown normal-seized snake would eat). When they are adults, anacondas can eat turtles, sheep, dogs, jaguars, bird eggs, crocodiles, pigs, deer, smaller seized mammals, and pretty much anything that they can fit through their jaws (which is a lot, because they, like all snakes, can unhinge their jaws when they swallow down their prey).

Despite the fact that movies always show anacondas hunting and eating humans, they will not eat people unless provoked. There haven't been a large number of attacks on humans, and the cause of the attacks were probably the human’s fault. Usually, anacondas are just fine eating what they normally eat (see list above).

But how do they catch such massive and powerful creatures as the jaguar and the crocodile? Well, they simply curl tightly around it. It is like the creatures are bounded with a thick, muscular, and malevolent coil of ropes. The anaconda wraps around its prey tighter and tighter until it finally suffocates it. This hunting tactic, used b all non-venomous snakes, is called constricting. This gives the non-venomous snakes their true name; constrictors.

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