#Giant anaconda full#
You can see the snake in full in couple of pictures below. Staff at West route put the snake on a tow truck and referred to the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) for study. Notably, the snake measured seven meters in length (not 10 m) and was believed to be hit by truck, crushed head and died. Like a user of Outer Space forum, Lava Maligna pointed, the Anaconda snake in the video was seen on the BR-163 Mato Grosso highway in Brazil in September 2015. Screenshot of story on blog Diário do Nordesteįor the revelation, the second picture of bulky snake in the video and the third one show a different snake than what is shown in the following footage. Back then the photos also circulated on WhatsApp with a story saying the 8 meters huge snake was captured by workers on the Madeira River. 2014 an article on blog Diário do Nordeste (taken down later) reported the story in question along with the two pictures, saying the construction workers released them contrary to the company’s orders to hide the fact. The second picture (shown in the video) and also the third one that of a bulky snake are in fact old, popular pictures seen online. The first picture of large snake being held up by a crane in forest is certainly different from what is shown further in the video.
Picture Suggesting 33-Ft Long, 400-Kg Massive Anaconda Discovered by Construction Workers in Brazil Picture Suggesting 33-Ft Long, 400-Kg Massive Anaconda Discovered by Construction Workers in Brazil Picture Suggesting 33-Ft Long, 400-Kg Massive Anaconda Discovered by Construction Workers in Brazil Unrelated Pictures and Video The video and the story was later shared by Weird Animals, and further got published in many news outlets along with social media sites like Facebook. It is said that the video was recorded by the construction workers, who chained the anaconda to a crane and later lifted it up to show onlookers. They have to swallow their prey whole, and can even unhinged their bottom jaw to fit large prey down.On 1 February 2016 YouTube user Alexandre Flores published the video shown above that shows couple of pictures of large snake lifted by a crane followed by the footage of alleged snake discovered after an explosion was carried out in the Cave of Altamira located in the Brazilian state of Pará. Their incredibly muscular bodies allow them to coil around their prey and constrict them to death. They can ambush their prey from the water, but since they're amphibious, they also can hunt on land, and sometimes even in the trees. They have backward-facing teeth to latch onto their prey. They'll also eat fish, birds, frogs, sloths, deer, capybaras, and even caimans. The green anaconda is the largest and most deadly of anacondas in South America, able to hunt prey as big as cows. The term "anaconda" often refers to this species, though the term could also apply to other members of the genus Eunectes. They also are the third longest snake in the world after the amethystine and reticulated python, with a length of up to 23 ft.
It is the heaviest (weighing up to 500 lbs.) and one of the longest known extant snake species. The Green Anaconda ( Eunectes murinus), also known as common anaconda, common water boa, or sucuri, is a non-venomous boa species found in South America. "Amazin' Amazon Adventure" Relevant pages List of species seen in Wild Kratts