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Green Anaconda
Eunectes murinus
Eunectes murinus is the heaviest snake alive - not the longest, a title the reticulated python holds - with reliable records around 5 to 6 m and over 90 kg, and the persistent tales of 10 m animals have never been backed by a specimen or a photograph despite a standing cash priz…
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- A female Green Anaconda can give birth to as many as 40 live young at one time, rather than laying eggs like many other snakes.
- A large female anaconda occasionally eats one of the males from her breeding ball afterwards - a rare, documented case of sexual cannibalism in snakes, and a substantial meal after a long fast. Anaconda skin bears a photographic-negative sensitivity to their prey's warmth via labial pits, but they are far less developed than a python's. The name comes from a Sinhalese or Tamil word for an Asian snake and was misapplied to the South American species by early European writers.
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