Anaconda - the huge snake on the planet
Anaconda - the name of this creature is terrifying to many people
, both South America and around the world. If it was just the biggest snake in the world, but the anaconda is also the most voracious snake, which is able to swallow even Snapping crocodile, to say nothing about the man? Anaconda is quite toxic. But for some reason this fact is not much help to avoid the death of all its victims. However, as a rule, anaconda does not use people as food, but it might accidentally come across and attack, especially if hungry. So, traveling to South America, be very careful when accidentally met on the way this ancient and enormous snake.
It turns out that in fact belongs to the subfamily anaconda boa constrictors (Boidae - Latin, scientific name). The second-largest after the anaconda snake is the reticulated python (Python reticulatus - Latin, scientific name), from Asia. The very same anaconda distributed in rivers, lakes, wetlands in South America.
Interestingly, local, South America called anaconda "bull killer", because this snake was originally attached the term of the Spanish language matatoro. But for American Indians SUKUR (Sucuri) anaconda called yakumama, which means "mother of water". Of course, since this snake prevalent in South America, rather broadly, the names and it has quite a lot.
Eunectes - all members of the family anaconda, Latin, scientific name. By anaconda snakes of the family include, as a rule, representatives of both Eunectes murinus - this is the general form of anacondas, also known as "the green anaconda," which is distributed in the Andes, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, on the island of Trinidad and in Malaysia. Also view Eunectes notaeus - yellow anaconda, it is smaller than the preceding species of anaconda, and is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. Also distinguish species Eunectes deschauenseei. It is quite rare, in this anaconda in the color of dark spots are present, and found it in Brazil, Guyana and French Guiana. Also South America is home to Giant anaconda, snakes, whose size is larger than all the other representatives of anacondas. Is this true or fiction, but some saw a snake more than twelve meters. While fixed size anaconda do not exceed eleven feet in length.
The green anaconda is the most common type of anaconda in South America. Above the color black and green anaconda, covered with brown spots. Bottom anaconda light yellow, as in dark spots. On the sides of the snake flaunt yellow spots outlined by a dark border. Anaconda's head is narrow, with high-set eyes, which allows the snake to watch out of the water without raising the surface of the body. Average length of a snake about seven meters, but there are individuals and larger. The heaviest anaconda that was ever found, weighed about two hundred and fifty pounds.
Anaconda - the huge snake on the planet
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