Known for its gargantuan size (the anaconda is the only. Due to their size, green anacondas are one of the few snakes capable of consuming a human, however this is extremely rare.Īt the Smithsonian's National Zoo, the green anaconda eats rats and rabbits about once a month. An anaconda is actually a species of boa, and one of the better-known species here in the new world. Females will sometimes cannibalize males, especially during breeding season. Adults are able to consume much larger animals, including deer, capybara, caimans and large birds. Juveniles tend to eat fish, birds and small mammals. They are opportunistic apex predators and eat a wide variety of prey. Green anacondas have slow metabolisms, and with the exception of breeding females, only need to eat once every few weeks. Like most snakes, they can detach their jaw to swallow prey much larger then themselves, though they are careful to weigh the risk of injury with large prey. Roth, Jeffery Beach, Phillip Roth, Blaze Productions LLC United. The Case Against: The snakes are only onscreen for about a minute total. Python : David Hewlett, Jaime Bergman, Kirk B.R. They use their strong jaws to capture their prey, then use their muscular bodies to suffocate the prey before swallowing it whole. The Case For: The CGI used to create the oversized reptiles isnt shockingly bad, just sort of standard-bad, which can be considered a sort of plus, kind of similar to how subtraction is like adding a negative number.
As members of the boa family, green anacondas are nonvenomous constrictors. Because boa constrictors, reticulated pythons, and anacondas are some of the biggest snakes in the world, many people get confused about which is which. Anacondas belong to the boa constrictor family, so they fall into. These excessively, gigantic snakes, but there are some pythons, such as the pygmy python, that only grow to be 23 inches (0.58 m) long. While pythons usually live up to 35 years, anacondas only live to be 30 years old. Like all snakes, green anacondas are carnivores. For example, Python and anaconda life spans differ slightly.