Anaconda

The Anaconda(Eunectes murinus)is the heviest and largest snake in the world, weighing 550 pounds(227 kilograms),growing to 29 feet(8.8 meters) and a diameter of 30 centimeters.Its cousin, the reticulated python, can reach slightly greater lengths, but the enormous girth of the anaconda makes it almost twice as heavy.Female Anaconda's are significatly larger than male anacondas.Anaconda's are nonvenomous constrictors, suffacating their prey until the animal asphyxiates. Their jaws attached by stretchy ligaments allow them to swallow their prey whole, no matter the size of its victum.They reach their monumental size on a diet of deer, wild pigs,fish,river fowls, birds, capybara, caimans, and even jaguars.Their eyes and nasal openings are on top of their heads, allowing them to lay in wait for prey while remaining nearly completely submerged. Anaconda's live in, slow moving streams,swamps and marshes.While encounters between people and anacondas may be dangerous, they do not regularly hunt humans. Nevertheless, threat from anacondas is a familiar trope in comics, movies and adventure stories set in the Amazon jungle. Anacondas have also figured prominently in South American folklore, where they are sometimes depicted as shapeshifting mythical creatures called encantados. Local communities and some European explorers have given accounts of giant anacondas, legendary snakes of much greater proportion than any confirmed specimen.