anaconda
(also known as ‘water boa’; plural: ‘anacondas‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)
an anaconda twisting around its prey
a kind of large non-poisonous snake, belongs to constrictors, found in South America – from Colombia and Venezuela to Argentina
There are three species (kinds) – dark-spotted anaconda, green anaconda and yellow anaconda. It is supposed to be the largest of the non-poisonous snakes – the maximum length is 25 feet (7.6 m) but the common size is 17 feet (5.2 m). It lives near or in shallow waters – swamps and rivers.
Being a non-poisonous snake, it does not bite its prey (the other animal it eats) but coils around the prey and crushes it to death before swallowing it whole.
The female anacondas do not lay eggs, but give birth to live young – from 20 to 80 at a time. {the other constrictors — python, boa, etc. – lay eggs}
Few people had known about anaconda before the Hollywood film ‘anaconda’ released in 1997 made this snake and its habitat known to common people, and since then the snake and its name have become very popular.
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