i know this is an old post but, here ya go. i have done research on the dark spotted anaconda for around 3 years now. i have compiled over 9 pages of solid info but have yet to publish my work, there has never been any in trad or private collections, there are 3 well documented specimens kept in the philadelphia zoological gardens, the last one died in the 1990's it was 23 years and 2 months old, which is where the 23.2 year expected life span comes from on most pages. the photo on wikipedia is a yellow anaconda at the parco zoo punta verde in italy. it was falsely identified. i contacted the zoo on this one. i have contacted wikipedia about this and changed the photo with my wiki acount, but its back up within the day. so i stoped trying. Lutz Dirksen has done alot of work on them. If you dont mind translating some russian and german texts you can find alot of info within his research. but have fun finding it. :P other than that Mark O'Shea caught one on his TV show in 1999, but all the origan episode are long gone and cant be found anymore. He has new episode of his show that started last year, but the old ones are gone, never recorded or posted by animal planet or dicovery. that pretty much all i can give ya.

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