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I was watching some shows on anacondas. they talked about when finding anacondas (the walking around with no shoes on way) that there r blue stingrays, piranha, and caimans that they could step on and attack them. i know nothing about blue stingrays but they never came across them. have u even see them or get "attacked" by one? I have had piranha and they seem to run away from everything and be better on there own and not in a school. i was never bitten by my piranha and I use to clean there cage with no gloves and they would just swim away. i have talked to people about caimans and people have said that if u would step on one they will most likely run away. have u even stepped on any of these creatures or bin "attacked" by them?

what r baby anacondas eating? r they eating the same thing as big anacondas like baby birds, baby caimans, baby capybaras, or r they eating something else i have not thought of.

also on this show they said mating balls can last for up to 2 months. this seems a long time is this true or r they just saying garbage information?

also in the wild do u find anacondas with parasites or water blisters? and have you ever found other anacondas besides green anacondas?

also on the show i was watching it said that local villages will kill anacondas on site if they find them. have u found this true with local people? I did not think this true because in most places in the world were there are big snakes they consider them as gods.

Crazy Cody

Thanks for your time to answer this Renee

cody, what special were you watching? I only know of a few anaconda specials. One is "Search for the giant green anaconda" that included a guy who wanted to find a large anaconda and pull it out of the water (this was the coolest documentary I have ever seen because it had a city on the river)...but this was terrible info on anacondas and only showed one baby and one adult the entire documentary. The others are done by mark o'shea and they were pretty interesting. Then there were the ones animal planet did with Maria munoz (if I am not mistaken she studied under jesus rivas..renee can correct that if I am wrong) she is usually seen on a jeff corwin or croc hunter special. The rest of the documentaries will include the Rivas study and renee would have been on there to confirm all your questions so I dont think that is the one. Also remember cody, there are more than one species of pirrahna (sp?). red bellied are the ones you probably have and are much much smaller and I believe less agressive. The black are much bigger and I believe you might want to be aware of them. There are also many species of caimen ranging from dwarf caimen being 3.5 ft to black caimen being over 15 ft. I believe there are temperment differences and the fact a black caimen would see a human as food while a spectacled caimen and a dwarf caimen might see them as a threat. remember there are also many different indian tribes all over south america so since the range of the green anaconda is huge...they would be around many tribes. Yanamamo are well known for coming across anacondas and I know nothing about them worshipping them as gods (I could be wrong). Even the same tribes in different regions would probably react to anacondas differently especially with how much interaction they have with "the western world". The kayapo would be a great example here. Some tribes work with governments and have a more "western" economy..I would expect them to hunt them if there is skin trade demand. But tribes with little contact with the western world might be more likely to hunt them for food since they are less likely to trade for food goods. I am sure some tribes worship them as gods but you cant make a blanket statement like that across all of south america. I will let renee take over from here but I think food would be similar to small birds, fish, lizards, and possibly small rodents and cold blooded animals.

thanks gavin i did not know you were renee lol im just messen with ya. i had red bellys they got rather large and had big teeth. i know of tribes in africa in that is some one kills a rock python the person is killed or exiled. i remember a story i read were some missionarys in africa were going to kill a large rock python that had layed eggs nere there tribe. long story short the python lived and the missionarys r no longer there. i know there r different caimens but from what i have herd they would rather run from people then attack.

CrazyCody