The giant ananconda still uses its teeth as a weapon, often to catch its prey in a grip before wrapping the subject up with the rest of its body, constricting and controlling. While the giant anaconda is not poisonous and spreads no venum through its teeth, with its natural size it doesn’t need in most cases to subdue its prey via venum. The features and appearance of the giant anacondaĪs previously mentioned the anaconda is native to south america and its colouring and patterns reflect its habitat, allowing the anacond to successfully blend in with its environment. Part of the boa family, or the Boa genus, where boa actually means large serpent in Latin, the giant anaconda belongs to this family due to its hunting nature, where it will coil round its prey, suffocating and choking them before swallowing and digesting their bodies. The first is anai-kondra which translates to ‘which killed an elephant’ and the word anaikoira which translates to ‘elephant killer.’ Both these descriptions are suitable and there is little doubt that a giant ananconda would be able to attack and probably kill an elephant, making the Tamil descriptions highly appropriatte. The name of the anaconda is unclear in origin, and there are multiple theories over where the name originated, including two interesting theories where the name is divired from the Tamil language. The anaconda is native to South America, and lives in a watery, warm environment, from rainforests and grassland to scrubland.

giant anacondas have been reported to kill animals as large as elephants, flip boats and are natural predators. The giant anaconda like its smaller sibling, is a non venoumous snake, but is still deadly due to its massive body and ability to constrict and wrap its body around its foes.

With reportings of the giant anaconda growing over thirty foot in length it’s easy to see why its one of the most well known giant reptiles in existance today.

One of the two biggest snakes, and members of the pythonos family, the anacondo can grow to a similar size as the reticulated python, but its body is typically much bigger in size than the python. Often shrouded in mystery, many sightings have been made of the fabled giant anaconda, but in reality, the biggest spotted anancondas are pretty large. The giant anaconda, the stuff of fact or fiction? In truth, the anaconda can grow to be truly massive, with its monikor as giant wholly suitable.

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