Snake: The Anaconda

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The fear or adoration for snakes rooted way back from the beginning of time. Not only that, snakes are a symbol of the devil in the Biblical sense. Satan, the most beautiful angel amongst all angels, took the form of a snake and decided to tempt Adam and Eve to take the fruit of knowledge back in the day when God created them as first humans. Amongst of all snakes, the anaconda is one of the largest and heaviest snakes on earth.

Although scientists don't know the exact maximum length of an anaconda (since they tend to grow until to their death.), but it has been recorded of a massive size of 28 ft. (8.6m) long and can weigh up to 450 lbs. A new born baby is already a hugely over-sized 3 ft. (1 m) long! Their location is in tropical Sough America, so people don't have to worry about those big snakes in other regions.

When anacondas and humans clash together can indeed be quite dangerous, and there are some incidents when one of those huge snakes swallows a human, but those attacks are very rare. When attacking a prey, usually aquatic animals, including fish, river fowl, cayman, and capybaras, the anacondas use their super strength muscles through out their whole body to wrap around the animal and strangle them to death or faint. How in details? Well, each exhale of a prey gives out, the tighter the snake wraps... well, you know the ending of this story. Imagine when a prey just faints and then wakes up in the stomach of a snake's belly? It's a slow and painful death!

Anyway! Here comes a new fun fact about hunting for anacondas, the most common knowledge that we have is that preys die from lack of oxygen because they were strangled, which is true! But since strangling can cause blood pressure to rise quickly, and a lot of times preys die from high blood pressure or a stroke.

Snakes do regurgitate when they feel they are threatened, but it's unlikely they will do that very often due to conserving energy. It's hard to get a meal in the wild, so unless the threat is definite, they will continue their meal. Besides, it's even a harder work throwing up than swallowing for them and, also, their teeth are hooked backwards and snakes don't like to risk damage to their teeth.