Green Anaconda

• It is the heaviest snake on the planet: although the reticulated python is longer, a large anaconda can weigh three times as much, and its body reaches the girth of a human torso.
• Its dimorphism is among the most extreme of any vertebrate: females can weigh five times as much as males, and during breeding as many as a dozen males form a writhing ball around a single female for weeks.
• It is virtually aquatic: its weight makes it clumsy on land, but in the water it moves quickly and can stay submerged for long spells with only its eyes and nostrils showing.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Slow rivers, marshes, swamps and floodplains of Amazonia, the Orinoco and the Guianas

Sexual maturity

2.5 years

Gestation / incubation

7 months of gestation

Litter / clutch size

30 live young

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.