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Anaconda Snake

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ANACONDA, common name for a large South American snake of the boa family. The anaconda or water boa is one of the largest and most powerful snakes in the world, and the largest in the western hemisphere. It kills its prey by constriction, or squeezing. The reptile is found in the rivers of the Guianas and Brazil. The female anaconda gives birth to living young.

Average length is 20 ft. Average diameter is 12 in. Average weight is 330 lb. (148.5 kg.) The anaconda lives in rain forests and river systems of the Amazon; it prefers swamps and sluggish streams. Its diet is aquatic and amphibious animals, mammals, fish, caiman, birds, ducks, and turtles. The anaconda is an excellent swimmer, but it also climbs on branches to dry off. . It is easily angered. It uses the water to rapidly escape predators and to conceal itself while searching for food.

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Anacondas are the strongest snakes in the world of snakes. Anacondas kill their prey by squeezing them until they die and then they eat them hole. They also can be up to 18 to 35 feet long and can weigh up to 500 pounds. Anacondas eat up to 40 pounds a day. Anacondas are the heaviest snakes in the world of all snakes. Another name for an anaconda is Eunectes murinus which is a scientific name for it. Some people thought that anacondas where some kind of sea monster. Anacondas are carnivorous.
Anacondas swallow their meal hole and when the meal is in their body their bones crush the meal. Anacondas feed on deer, pigs caiman( a creature that looks like a small crocodile). Anaconda are very amazing snakes.
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