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Giant anaconda species in the Amazon of Ecuador is the largest to be documented
- gregwebs 3y ago[flagged]
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- bmitc 3y agoI saw this video and was amazed. If it is real, that snake is absolutely massive. It seems almost too big to be viable. I am curious what it eats, as it seems it would be too large to be quick enough to eat most mammals. I'd have to guess these snakes are mainly ambush predators, and it does seem a quick search verifies that. Also, it's a bit sad you can commit unprovoked physical assault on national television and then get invited to voiceover a nature documentary for National Geographic and Disney.
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- asah 3y agoFriend of mine grew up in Malaysia and they'd get snakes of this length. Once a giant snake crossed the road and took up the entire width of the road. Others have reported similar. https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+as+wide+as+a+road https://www.google.com/search?q=snake+as+wide+as+a+road AFAICT, muscles scale with the size so there's no reason to assume that length would reduce its speed during an assault.
- ReptileMan 3y ago>AFAICT, muscles scale with the size so there's no reason to assume that length would reduce its speed during an assault. Muscles scale on the square of their radius, their weight on the cube. An ant could put any powerlifter to shame pound for pound.
- hawk_ 3y agoDo ants have muscles?
- orbital-decay 3y agoSure, mesosoma (middle part of the body) in ants is mostly muscles.
- pvaldes 3y agoAll animals have
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- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoWait, those are very different. Is the snake's width the same as the road's width? (Like some sci-fi T-rex) Or the snake's length the same as the road's width? (Like a fairly long snake on a fairly narrow one-lane road) (I'm thinking of that "10-foot dragon" meme, iykyk)
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- sunnybeetroot 3y agoIs there a right amount of cancelling someone before it doesn’t become sad anymore?
- bmitc 3y agoI don't think it's canceling someone to not go out of your way to put them as the face/voice and title namesake of your Disney and National Geographic nature documentary.
- fddrdplktrew 3y agoI've seen a Florida snake swallow a 5ft alligator, it was a Python though and not an Anaconda: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/5-foot-gator-found-in-stomach-of-18-foot-burmese-python-in-florida-everglades/2906774/ https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/5-foot-gator-found-in-st... ... I don't think it's the only one that has been found in Florida either (one busted out of the snake).
- boringg 3y agoI bet you if you posted an article about the Florida Python challenge on HN people would be expecting a very different competition!
- thsksbd 3y agoDisruptive start up idea: Unsustainable animal products from nuisance invasive species to feed otherwise controversial, high end, luxury European industries (read Italian) . - Florida python for handbags - Wild Texas boar for sausages and salumes. Etc. Hire FL and TX locals in a Uber model. Unsustainable is the key challenge. The business goal is to get rid of the invasive species, but how to build a business whose goal is to be a not going concern?
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoSequence invasive species. Everything gets to be limited time only, build on the FOMO.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoYou can't eat wild boar. Or rather you can and individual hunters sometimes do. But the various diseases and parasites wild boars tend to have makes them uneconomical to harvest for resale. Trust me, Texans have thought of this. https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-feral-hog-problem-swine-country/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/texas-feral-hog-problem-...
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- joak 3y ago«The Orinoco basin of the Amazon» ?! This is a geographic mistake, the Orinoco river is not a tributary of the Amazon, it's an independent river and one of the biggest. According to wikipedia it is the third or fourth largest river in the world by discharge volume of water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_Basin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orinoco_Basin «Its discharge is the third largest of any river worldwide, after the Amazon and the Congo» Edit: change my wording about the journalist
- phinnaeus 3y agoIs it possible the author is referring to the Amazon Rainforest instead of the Amazon River?
- appplication 3y agoThat is how I read it
- joak 3y agoThe whole thing is confusing, where did they find it? In Ecuador or in the Orinoco basin? There no overlap between the two...
- joak 3y agoI don't know, the geographic mess is everywhere: «A giant anaconda species captured recently in the Amazon of Ecuador» The Orinoco basin doesn't reach Ecuador... The Orinoco basin is within Colombia and Venezuela (and touches Brazil).
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- orbital-decay 3y agoHere's the actual article instead of the telephone game in USA Today. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16020127 https://doi.org/10.3390/d16020127
- goda90 3y agoUnless cryptozoological accounts[0] are to be believed. I highly doubt it but it would be cool if there were a living snake the size of Titanoboa[1] still. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Van_Lierde#Alleged_encounter_with_a_giant_snake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Van_Lierde#Alleged_encoun... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanoboa
- alexey-salmin 3y ago> I highly doubt it but it would be cool if there were a living snake the size of Titanoboa[1] still. Why? On practice it would not make rainforest significantly more dangerous to humans than it is now. And it would definitely be cool to know that such behemoth exists out there.
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- jebarker 3y agoI think you misread the comment
- alexey-salmin 3y agoYou're right
- rtrehyreytret 3y agonobody tell the yoink guy
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- josefresco 3y agoFor those not in on the joke, the comment refers to Fishingarrett a wildlife enthusiast who operates in the Florida everglades. He has 1.25 million YouTube subscribers (1) and is known for saying "yoink" when picking up seemingly highly dangerous (but usually not) critters. It's pretty entertaining considering he often goes out at night, barefoot, in waters that would give most people "the willies". Certainly channeling Steve Irwin. 1: https://www.youtube.com/@fishingarrett https://www.youtube.com/@fishingarrett
- pvaldes 3y agoClear publicity stunt. Same history appeared a few days ago under a different issue. Taking in mind the position of the camera too close to the snake head, I wouldn't even discard that this hasn't been filmed on an aquarium. A truly wild snake never would allow to get too close without a response.
- littlestymaar 3y agoHow do you know the position of the camera? It could be 2 meters away and zoomed in.
- pvaldes 3y agoI can't know. But In some part of the video you can spot the sake head making a strange movement, like bumping into some invisible obstacle or something. Zooming into a dirt river does not made the dirt between the target and the lens disappear magically I'm just discussing the title suggesting that this video shows the biggest anaconda measured. This is obviously publicity. I have seen much bigger animals on photos or records. Is a big discovery so, why the need to lie about that?. I don't have any problem with the claim that a new species of anaconda had been discovered. What I dislike, a lot, is the banalization of the Biology with media disrespecting the zoologists and forcing them to adopt a Tarzan persona, and became children entertainers begging for aaws and oows. Congratulations to the Dutch Irwin for appearing in the Rivas article among the other twenty researchers, but if his apport was the video swimming with the snake, it was totally unnecessary.
- mcv 3y agoThe diver in that video is Freek Vonk, famous Dutch TV biologist (basically the Dutch Steve Irwin) and professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. This video was part of the original announcement of the discovery. Freek does a lot to teach the general public about animals, and that involves a lot of spectacular videos that seem reckless and dangerous, but he clearly knows what he's doing. He's been doing this for ages. I'm absolutely sure this wasn't an aquarium. I'm also pretty sure Freek knows more about how to safely approach snakes than you do.
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- johnmctavish 3y agoWhen you have a meeting with the investors at 9, but have to swim with anacondas at 10...
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