The Amazon anaconda is a reptile and cold-blooded. That means it is the same temperature as the air around it. It is a type of snake called a boa constrictor.
Amazon anaconda is one of the largest snakes in the world, the same size as one type of python, and Amazon anaconda can grow to over 37 feet and weigh up to 550 pounds! Amazon Rainforest anaconda continue to grow all their lives, getting bigger and bigger each year.
Amazon Rainforest Anaconda are carnivores, or meat-eaters. Amazon Rainforest Anaconda eat fish, caimans, deers, birds, ducks and turtles.
Amazon Rainforest Anaconda is boa constrictors, which means they squeeze their prey until it cannot breathe. Amazon Rainforest Anacondas
also bite their prey with their sharp teeth, hold on with their
powerful jaws and pull them under water. The prey may drown. They are
nocturnal, which means they hunt at night. They usually wait until their
prey comes to them, but they will also hunt. Amazon Rainforest Anaconda
swallow their prey whole, head first. They don't chew their food. They
have a special organ near their mouth that can sense heat. That is how
Anaconda can find animals to eat.
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