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The green anaconda is the largest snake in the world. Its solid, heavy body is olive-green to brown and patterned with numerous circular black markings scattered along its length. The scales are smooth and glossy (Areste and Cebrian 2003, Mattison 2006). This particular pattern and coloration provides the snake with camouflage while it lies submerges among aquatic vegetation. These snakes also exhibit the greatest sexual size dimorphism of any terrestrial vertebrate.
- Conservation Status : Least concern
- Habitat : Wetlands and Marshes, Savannas and Grasslands
- Class: Reptilia
- Order: Squamata
- Family: Boidae
- Genus: Eunectes
Diet
Carnivores preying on large animals including tapirs, capybaras, deer, peccaries, fish, turtles, birds, aquatic reptiles, dogs and sheep. Although rare, there have been some documented attacks by anaconda on jaguars.
Colors
Green, Black, Brown
Fun Facts
Breeding females are at least five times the size of breeding males.
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