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Wow! He caught a nice sized green. He started the show saying he was going to find 3 species of anacondas in the amazon and on some island. He spent the whole time digging this huge green out of some mudhole though.
I was looking forward to seeing the others in a wild setting and all he showed was a dead rotten snake that he said he thought was (arik cant remember the other species besides greens and yellows so insert it here lol). It looked like a small green to me though.
One other peoblem with the show was when they dug this huge green out of this mudhole they had 5 guys carrying it supposedly a long distance. Mark didn't have the first 5 feet of this huge green restrained at all during a lot of this supposed transport.
Never having caught a wild green before, I'm no expert, but I would expect that a huge female that was dug out of a mudhole and had her jaws pried open with a stick would be a little more aggressive. I suspect some trickery like Irwin does when he cools down his snakes right before filming a scene.
Good sized green though.
I'm sure some of you have probably seen this episode but I hadn't.
Arik

Many wild caught anacondas, and especially greens, will frequently become lethargic after being put through a stressful situation. This could possibly account for the sluggish behavior of the green you saw on this episode. I haven't seen this one in a long time, but I think he was also looking for a specimen of E. deschauenseei.

Kelly

Yep, that was the other one. I just couldn't remember.

One of my first threads in here was seeing what people can put down on the marajo island species e. deschaunseii

Did you ever get any pics or good replies?
Arik

I think there was a few links and some great info. In my post I didn't even mention Eunectes Beniesis since I have only seen a little information in foreign laguages about it. I thought E. Barbori was a more excepted species but I was wrong. The only place I have ever seen a picture of what is said to be E.Deschauenseii was on a Mark O'Shea website. However, there was not as much information as some of the sites I found that were not published in english...go back and read it...you will learn a lot...some great posts by I think DFR, Kelly, and Renee if I remember correctly.

you can find the thread on page 4 and april 2nd..I titled it..the eunectes 4....get it. redhed didnt post i just double checked. DFR has the links and kelly backed with some good info. I am surprised that if you are interested in anacondas, you have not seen these websites already. I went to library after library and all over the net to find something in english about them. I don't know how dfr and kelly know how barbouri was removed and beniensis does since the only things I can find on them are in languages I do not know and all i can make out is the name and habitat.