Anaconda - San Diego Zoo
A member of the boa family, South America’s green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world. Like all boas, it kills its prey by coiling its muscular body around the creature and squeezing until the animal can no longer breathe. Anacondas like to …
Green anaconda | Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation …
These anacondas are olive-green with dark oval spots along their spines and similar spots with yellow centers along their sides. The scales on their belly are yellow and black. They also have two dark stripes from their eyes angling toward their jaws.
Anaconda - San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants
A member of the boa family, Boidae, South America’s green anaconda is the heaviest snake in the world, having the greatest girth in proportion to its length of any snake. The green anaconda is normally some shade of brownish-green, olive, or grayish …
Anaconda - San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers
Most anacondas live in marshes and swamps. There are a few kinds of anacondas, but the green anaconda is the big one. Weighing up to 550 pounds, it holds the record for heaviest snake in the world. If you measured around the middle of an anaconda's body, it could be up to 12 inches around—measure your thigh to compare.
Anaconda: Habits, hunting and diet - Live Science
2022年3月3日 — The Beni or Bolivian anaconda is found only in a small part of Bolivia, according to the San Diego Zoo. The dark-spotted anaconda lives in Brazil and French Guiana, according to the...
Green Anaconda | Franklin Park Zoo - Zoo New England
The green anaconda is dark green with oval patches on its back and smaller spots with yellow centers on its side. This coloring camouflages it in the wet, dense vegetation of its rainforest habitat. The green anaconda is not venomous, though it does have sharp teeth and powerful jaws to clench prey, which it then pulls underwater and drowns.
Green Anaconda - The Houston Zoo
Green Anaconda. The heaviest snake in the world, a green anaconda, lies in wait in the water below the separated howler monkeys in the gallery forest canopy.
Anaconda - Louisville Zoo
There are two types of Anaconda at the Louisville Zoo. The green and the yellow anaconda. The green is usually darker in color with black patches. The yellow is lighter in color. The name “Anaconda” actually derives from the Sinhalese (an Indian language) referring to the python.
Boa | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants
Largest: Anaconda can reach 30 feet (9meters) in length and up to 280 pounds (127 kilograms) Smallest: Arabian sand boa and the elegant sand boa are up to 16 inches (40 centimeters) long. FUN FACTS. Boa means "a large serpent” in Latin. Female anacondas grow much larger than the males. Boa constrictors like to eat bats!
Green Anaconda - Our Animals - Henry Vilas Zoo
Green anacondas live in streams, rivers, swamps, and marshes. They are found throughout tropical South America, mainly in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. Green anacondas are carnivores who eat any animal they can catch! That includes large rodents, tapirs, capybaras, deer, peccaries, fish, turtles, birds, sheep, dogs, and aquatic reptiles.