“An anaconda is an apex predator. It can grow almost 30 feet long with a width as large as an adult human’s waist.”
Um. Nope. Anacondas rarely get over 18 feet and the longest is about 21 feet. They’re a very heavy bodied snake and are most comfortable in the water. they are capable of taking large meals and in rare instances can eat a person, they routinely shy away from people. The Green Anaconda is the heaviest of all snake species and can exceed 500 pounds. Whereas the Reticulated python, the longest snake species in the world can reach 23+ feet but rarely top 300 pounds.
If there really is an anaconda in that lake, it’s used to human contact as it has lived in captivity. It will not view people as food but as a source of food. With that being said, anyone not familiar with the giants should steer clear. If the snake feels threatened, it can defend itself very competently. Being that it is most likely used to people, capturing it shouldn’t be overly stressful or dangerous if it’s done right.
I really wish people that don’t know a lot about snakes would quit posting their “facts” that are not true. Sheesh.
“In 1962, W.L. Schurz claimed to have measured a snake in Brazil of 8.46 m (27.8 ft) with a maximum girth of 112 cm (3.67 ft). One female. reportedly measuring 7.9 m (26 ft) in length, shot in 1963 in Nariva Swamp, Trinidad contained a 1.5 m caiman. A specimen of 7.3 m (24 ft), reportedly with a weight of 149 kg (328lb) was caught in at the mouth of the Kassikaityu River in Guyana, having been restrained by 13 local men, and was later air-lifted for a zoo collection in the United States, but died in ill health shortly thereafter...The estimated weight for an anaconda in the range of 8 m (26 ft) is at least 200 kg (440 lb.)”.
Source: Wikipedia.com.
So yes these animals do get quite large and can grow to almost 30 feet in length. Most of the ones caught are in rivers in Venezuela, it is quite conceivable that they grow even bigger deep in the Amazon jungle.