The yellow anaconda is the second largest type of anacondas in the world. An adult yellow anaconda has a length between 10 and 15 feet and weighs up to 60 kg.
Yellow anacondas are endemic to South America. They inhabit in swamps, marshes and rivers. This big snake is a non-venomous member of boa snake family.
Yellow anacondas have very attractive yellow skin with black spots. So that they can hide in murky waters of rivers or swamps.
The yellow anacondas are a strictly solitary snake and gather together only for mating.
Yellow anacondas are ambush hunter, that is they wait for the prey to pass by and will make a sudden attack. After catching the prey, they coil around it and constrict to death. The diet of yellow anacondas consists of deer, peccaries, caimans, fishes and turtles.
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