Anacondas are large, nonvenomous snakes found in tropical South America. They live in swamps, rivers, and other bodies of water near rainforests. Anacondas reach up to 35 feet in length and feed on large prey like deer, pigs, birds, and fish. They reproduce through mating balls where multiple males swarm around a single female in an attempt to breed. While anacondas are not currently threatened, loss of habitat in tropical rainforests affects their populations.

1. Anaconda By Orville Gramajo 4/29/11 Period 0

2. Stats Usually up to 16ft, but snakes over 35ft long have been recorded Related to a Boa constrictor, or to a green anaconda, or python It’s diet large rodents, wild pigs, wild pigs, deer, birds, fish, and aquatic reptiles

3. Habitat The abundant streams, rivers, swamps, and pools of the tropical rainforest Anacondas have scared and entertained us on the big screen in the last few years Many anacondas are found in the tropical rainforests and although their numbers are not facing any threat, many of these species are definitely affected due to loss of their natural habitat.

4. Breeding Anacondas at times form breeding balls (also Known as mating balls) in these many males swarm over a single female. In an attempt to mate up to a dozen or more male anacondas may wrap themselves around a much larger female, in an attempt to insert their sex organs into the female's cloaca. Read more:

5. Human Interaction Part of the script's appeal to the filmmakers was that the giant Anaconda that becomes the film's main instrument of terror is not entirely a creature of fantasy. The first half of filming took place on locations in the Brazilian Amazon, helmed by director Luis Llosa.

6. Food Source They reach their monumental size on a diet of wild pigs, deer, birds, turtles, capybara, caimans, and even jaguars. Anacondas are nonvenomous constrictors, coiling their muscular bodies around captured prey and squeezing until the animal asphyxiates.

7. Geographic Anacondas live in the Central part and South America. In the tropical rain forest, the forest in Brazil are you can find Giant Anacondas. Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Bolivia

8. Facts Anacondas make their home in the Amazon jungles of South America and are part of the Boa Constrictor family. Anacondas live near rivers, lakes and swamps and like to live alone. Anacondas are very difficult for scientists to study or even find. They are really quiet and leave no trail. They spend a lot of their time in the dark waters of their habitat.

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