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Two Brazilian fishermen claim that they managed to meet and to film the largest anaconda in the world.
At first, the men took a snake for a huge river a log, however, approaching him on a boat, they realized that it creepy anaconda, about 9 meters long.
Officially, the largest anaconda is 9 meters and with weighing about 130 kilograms lives in the New York Zoological Society, however, there is evidence that in the wild there are even 11 meter boas.
We also offer you a look at unique photographs that made by Swiss extreme photographer Franco Banfi (also in Brazil), who ventured to go down to the bottom of the Amazon and take off anacondas in their natural habitat, that is, under water.
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Note that anacondas inhabit almost the entire tropical part South America, but they are found in some other places, for example, on the island of Trinidad. The adult anaconda has practically no enemies in nature, she lives for a maximum of about thirty years, in captivity – much less, and the snake takes root in terrariums with great work.
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This boa feeds on all kinds of mammals and birds. even to catch and eat a jaguar, there were cases of anaconda attacks on person. However, its glory as a human devourer is huge. the snake received only thanks to the Hollywood thrillers. Authentic cases when people died from it, you can count on fingers.
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And another misconception: for some reason, it is believed that the anaconda crushes his victim, breaking even her bones, but in fact the snake is just compresses the caught mammal and does not allow him to breathe. And when the victim dies of suffocation, swallows it whole. Attack Anaconda maybe on other snakes, for example, a case is officially recorded, when this creepy boa swallowed a 2.5 meter python.
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