Full grown green anaconda4/27/2023 ![]() There are stories of 40 meter long Anacondas. I have seen and studied 11 Anacondas in the wild and each one of them proved me right. True to my appreciations, I found Anacondas to be the most docile, harmless and wise reptile I have ever encountered. An animal gets aggressive against humans only and only under two basic reasons - either they consider you as food or as threat. There is one TRUTH that exists in nature. My way of understanding nature, denied to accept this fact. It was widely spread through such stories that Anacondas regardlessly eat humans. The huge size and incredibly powerful chunk of muscles helped fabrication of such stories. This unnecessary demonization can be accredited to thriller movies and some over exaggerated narrations from erstwhile travelers. Since ages, GIANT ANACONDAS (or GREEN ANACONDAS) have created a terror amongst travelers and researchers. If I discard the mythical stories of Titanoboa, the largest snake that has ever crawled on the face of the earth is found here and my tailor made expedition was aimed at finding them in their natural habitat, photograph them and above all to know and break the myths that has been injected inside us by the TRP seeking Hollywood and Tollywood movies. ![]() However I chose Colombia over Venezuela because of the huge political, economic and social turmoil prevailing in Venezuela in the present days. The terrain is better known as the Orinoco basin and is exclusively shared between Colombia and Venezuela. This landscape is covered with thick canopies at one end and vast grasslands on the other, being aptly connected by dense and thorny undergrowths. A vast swathe of Savannah which houses all the unique species of the thick rainforest but open enough to offer the best opportunity to spot and photograph them. These are the vast plains with which the Amazon rainforest merges. While Amazon is the main home to numerous exclusive species, I chose to venture into a slightly different location called Los Llanos (spell it as Los Yanos – meaning Plains in Spanish). However we continue to ignore the very El Dorado of natural heritage that exists right in the heart of Latin America. People go in search of El Dorado – the city of gold, even though it’s existence has been completely discarded. Its biodiversity is uniquely different from other parts of the world. ![]() Its remote and inaccessible patches, especially in and around the Amazon basin alone, is home to 20% of the entire world’s wilderness. Latin America is probably the largest storehouse of Nature’s best kept secrets in the world.
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