There are many size claims regarding Green Anacondas, today we are going to take a closer look to see how big they really get.
Snake in the Congo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deT0MjVlD_Y&t=12s
Jack Randall: https://www.youtube.com/@MadeintheWild
Sources:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322961107_An_evaluation_of_techniques_for_measurements_of_snake_length
http://www.hoaxorfact.com/pranks/33-ft-long-400-kg-massive-anaconda-discovered-by-construction-workers-in-brazil-hoax.html
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/worlds-largest-snake-amazon/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ti6s_UStUc
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274390708_Eunectes_murinus_green_anaconda_Longevity
Irish team: https://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php%3fidx=8475
https://www.bigsnakes.info/research-file.html
Growth rate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274390708_Eunectes_murinus_green_anaconda_Longevity
Oldest living snake:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/626676-oldest-living-snake-in-captivity
Videos:
Irish team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-4U0NDKQOo
Excavator size:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211207005794/en/Brazil-Crawler-Excavator-Market-2021-to-2027---Featuring-Caterpillar-Komatsu-and-Hitachi-Among-Others---ResearchAndMarkets.com
https://www.bigrentz.com/blog/cat-excavator-sizes
Video of an anaconda: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ti6s_UStUc
How big:
https://osf.io/x46hd/
Overestimate https://www.snakehaus.com/frontpage/meet-the-animals/giants-among-us/size-matters/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/educators/resource/make-a-snake-string-snake-survey/
https://bio.davidson.edu/herpcons/Myths/General.html
Jack Randal catching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpA4BFNyKV8
Size of large snakes:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560189/
30ft claims:
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/green-anaconda
https://www.livescience.com/34444-biggest-snake-largest-snake-longest-snake.html