They’re native to Trinidad and Tobago and other South American regions However in most cases they usually weigh around a few hundred pounds.Īnacondas can reach lengths of 17 feet (5 metres), and some specimens may be as long as 36 feet (11 meters), but this is unusual.Īnacondas can measure more than 12 inches (30.5 centimetres) in diameter. Green anacondas can grow to weigh as much as a whopping 1,100 pounds. Here are five things to know about green anacondas, the world’s heaviest snake courtesy the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute: Ricardo Meade, director and founder of the El Socorro Centre for Wildlife Conservation, shows one of these impressive snakes up close: However these snakes, while they might seem scary, are hardly ever visible to humans as they prefer to stay away from human habitation, instead sticking to rivers and other water-based habitats.Īnacondas are useful in keeping the numbers of certain predators under control, such as caimans.

It can weigh hundreds of pounds and is capable of taking down a jaguar if it grows to be large enough. The Green Anaconda is known as the world's heaviest snake and is native to Trinidad and Tobago. Most people who think that they spot a skunk ape tend to keep the news to themselves for fear of sounding crazy, and until recently they felt the same way when they caught sight of a strange green snake big enough to swallow a Great Dane.Did you know? The largest snake in the world (in terms of weight) is a Trini. This is, after all, the home of the legendary skunk ape. Those locals see a lot of other weird things out there in the swamp. Hanging out with other python hunters, I realized within a few days that the vast majority of pythons had been captured by locals who just happen to bump into them while doing other things. And many other invasive species were crawling around without receiving nearly as much attention. The pythons were less of a problem than the media had made them out to be.

The Burmese pythons have become a well-publicized problem, but once I got down there and started spending time with the fishermen, bikers, reformed gator poachers, tour guides, smugglers, and biologists who inhabit the sparsely populated southern Glades, I found that the situation wasn’t everything it was made out to be on the evening news. I met Shealy and Scholle while I was on an expedition in February to hunt invasive Burmese pythons in the Everglades.

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