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Yule and Frank Wall noted that the snake was in fact a python and suggested a Tamil origin anai-kondra meaning elephant killer. Edwin described a ' tiger' being crushed to death by an anaconda, when there actually never were any tigers in Sri Lanka. Henry Yule in his Hobson-Jobson notes that the word became more popular due to a piece of fiction published in 1768 in the Scots Magazine by a certain R. Tancred Robinson, but the description of its habit was based on Andreas Cleyer who in 1684 described a gigantic snake that crushed large animals by coiling around their bodies and crushing their bones. Ray used a catalogue of snakes from the Leyden museum supplied by Dr. The word anaconda is derived from the name of a snake from Ceylon ( Sri Lanka) that John Ray described in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. The South American names anacauchoa and anacaona were suggested in an account by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, but the idea of a South American origin was questioned by Henry Walter Bates who, in his travels in South America, failed to find any similar name in use. 3 Species and other uses of the term "anaconda"Īlthough the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species, in particular, the common or green anaconda ( Eunectes murinus), which is the largest snake in the world by weight, and the second longest.Even after the people in this video freed the snake its belly was floating on the surface because it was so engorged from whatever was in there (possibly capybara or a jaguar). This snake swallowed unidentified prey that’s so big the snake’s belly is swollen to the point that it got stuck in the jungle. Recent footage of an anaconda has gone viral and you’ll soon see why.
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They can regularly grow over 17 feet but there have been unsubstantiated claims of 30 to 40-foot-long snakes out there.
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The green anaconda is the largest snake species no the planet by weight and the 2nd largest by length. Everyone everywhere agrees the anaconda is one of the biggest snakes around. Then there’s the Green Anaconda, one of the biggest and heaviest snake species on the entire planet.
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To an adult, a tiny rattlesnake could seem ‘big’ because (1) they’re terrifying to many people and (2) most people run when they hear the rattle and never get a good look at the snake to begin with. To a toddler, a two-foot-long corn snake would be massive. This is one of the largest snakes ever filmed and the snake’s stomach is so large from the prey inside that all it could do is float and couldn’t escape the area.A giant green anaconda snake estimated at 16.5-feet long was filmed in the Brazilian jungle after it got stuck because it was so big from swallowing large prey whole.