| Anacondas are highly efficient carnivorous predators. | | | | death. |
| They sheer mass there belies with speed when it | | | | The snake may submerge the victim causing it to |
| comes to capturing their prey and getting there meal. | | | | drown but all the while the anaconda will slowly |
| How an anaconda kills is an amazing sight to behold. | | | | squeeze the life out of the animal. As a member of |
| These creatures live near bodies of water such as | | | | the boa constrictor family, the anaconda uses similar |
| streams, rivers, marshes, swamps, ditches and bogs. | | | | tactics for killing. It uses its body to restrict airflow |
| They do not stalk their prey nor hunt it down. | | | | and circulation of the blood. The victim will either |
| Instead, they wait for an available animal to wander | | | | suffocate, drown or be crushed to death. Like |
| close and then they attack. Animals falling victim to | | | | explained, in just an instance, the death is a slow yet |
| anacondas either already share the natural habitat of | | | | painful process. |
| the waterway with the snakes or come close to | | | | Once the anaconda kill is successful, the snake will |
| their habitat in order to find food themselves or drink. | | | | commence eating its victim. It usually starts at the |
| Anacondas can move relatively fast, especially when | | | | head and begins devouring its prey whole, swallowing |
| considering their size when they are in the water. | | | | it until it is completely ingested. The animal will now |
| They are much slower on land. So aquatic animals | | | | be digested. |
| such as fish, frogs and turtles are easy prey for such | | | | This is something that needs to be done quickly else |
| feared animal! The larger animals the anacondas eat | | | | it will rot and cause the anaconda to die of food |
| are caught because of the camouflage, stealth and | | | | poisoning. The food is generally either digested quickly |
| strength of such animal. | | | | or regurgitated. This is a natural process that is highly |
| Anacondas can slither near the edge of the water, | | | | efficient. |
| keeping submerged until the last moment. Their | | | | There have been instances of anacondas attacking |
| natural coloring blends in with the area around them, | | | | people but the cases cited are very rare. Currently |
| allowing them to be camouflaged and difficult to see. | | | | there are no known, verifiable accounts of an actual |
| An unsuspecting bird or land animal may get too | | | | anaconda kill on a human victim. The anaconda |
| close and suddenly find themselves in a death grip | | | | instead prefers a diet of aquatic animals, birds, |
| without an additional second of survival hope. | | | | rodents, pigs and even jaguars. |
| For an anaconda kill to occur, the snake coils its | | | | Anacondas are able to go long periods of time |
| powerful body around the victim. Although the snake | | | | without eating if necessary. However, they are also |
| has teeth, there teeth are not venomous and they | | | | not picky eaters, choosing victims based entirely on |
| cannot kill or tear the flesh of the prey. Instead the | | | | their availability and ease of attack. Whenever an |
| anaconda holds the animal to maintain its grip and | | | | animal strays too close to one of these snakes, the |
| devours its prey slowly to make it a slow and terrible | | | | odds of an anaconda kill are imminent. |