Take eight long paces from where you are sitting or standing at the moment. That’s how long it can be. Eight metres.

The green anaconda is not only long, it is also thick and is reckoned to be the heaviest snake in the world, about 200 kg!

Anacondas are constrictors. They do not use poison but squeeze their victims to death instead.

In the Anaconda swamp there are green anacondas.