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By swallowing it whole and by using it's muscles in a rhythmic fashion it works the food toward its digestive area,
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Anacondas Scientific classification.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Serpentes
Family: Boidae
Subfamily: Boinae
Genus: Eunectes
The question what is the biggest snake can be confusing, the biggest as far as girth (largest being measured at 44 inches or 1,1176 m) is the Green Anaconda, on average anacondas are more then 20 ft (6.09 m) long with and average weight of 300+ pounds (136.08+ kg) many reaching lengths of 29ft ( 8.83 m) or more, with a weight of over 550 lbs ( 249.48 kg), in terms of length then and only then will the Reticulated Python exceed the anaconda, the longest python was measured at 33 ft ( 10.05 m) but even this python can't match the total mass of the anaconda.
Anacondas are members of the Boidae family of reptiles and spend most of their time in rivers and swamps of the Amazon Rainforest in South America which makes them excellent swimmers and are capable of holding their breath for around 15 minutes, female anacondas are generally 3 to 4 times larger then the males and bear their young live and are called "Neonates", the number of young varies, some have produced 100 babies, but the average is between 20 to 40 babies which are about 24 inches (0.6 m) long, they stay with the mother for about and hour then leave to be on their own. Diet consist of (depending on the size of the anaconda, the larger the snake the larger the prey) large/small rodents like capybaras, also pigs, caiman, jaguars, deer, dogs, birds even fish and is acquired by ambushing with a quick strike, 100 rear-facing sharp teethhold the prey while suffocating it with constriction, (the anaconda is so powerful it generally crushes it's prey) then swallowing it whole and by using it's muscles in a rhythmic fashion it works the food toward its digestive area, the digestion of the anaconda is very slow thereby allowing it to survive without food for well over a year.
Anacondas have around a 10 to 12 year year life span in the wild, in captivity some have reached 20 + years, the biggest threat to it is man and loss of their habitat.
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What animals eat anacondas?
Jaguars and crocodiles prey on anacondas on rare occasions.
What does yellow anaconda eat?
Yellow anacondas prey on fish, reptiles, and geese.
What type of fish do Anacondas eat?
Green anacondas prey on piranhas, catfish, apraima fish, and freshwater fish.
What is the prey for the Anconda?
Anacondas eat caimans,other snakes,deer, cappybaras.
Do anacondas eat young jaguars?
Green anacondas prey on young or adult jaguars. They hide in water and ambush attack the jaguar.
What can anacondas eat?
medium size mammals including world largest rodents capybaras
Can big anacondas eat an alligators?
Alligators do not live where anacondas live. They live in different continents. Large female green anacondas prey on black caimans, but mainly the females and small males.
Can a snake eat a gator?
Depends on the size of the snake and the alligator. Anacondas are known to prey on alligators.
What kind of fish do caiman eat?
Anacondas and jaguarsGreen anacondas prey on small species of caimans, and sometimes large ones as well.
Do any species eat yellow anacondas in south America?
Yacare caimans, black caimans, jaguars, and large groups of piranhas prey on yellow anacondas.
What is the anacondas predator?
Yellow anacondas are prey to caimans and jaguars.
Are anacondas prey or predators?
Answer Both actually. There are several species that'll eat small Anacondas. But as they grow, there are fewer and fewer animals willing to attack them. Adult Anacondas have no regular enemies apart from humans. Answer Anacondas are predators. They actually will eat anything that they can manage to capture, considering their large size.
