Pregnant Anaconda Killed by Villagers, How Sad?
Set of photos show a killed aged pregnant Anaconda! The question here why it was killed? Maybe this Anaconda causes problems in this region but in the same time there is no wonder in this world there is some stupid careless persons. It’s really sad to see such as things like cutting down a tall tree just for fun. anyways let’s see the photos!
Don’t count them there are 70 little Anacondas! ;D
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well i’m sure the villagers will be thinking more about their livestock (and perhaps children’s) safety.
Problem with killing snakes is they eat rodents and insects. Expect to see new infections in regions there snakes extinct.
How is this worse than abortion… Boo hoo over a snake but not a babys life… How sad
If the snake would have rejected her babies and killed them, that is fine, it is a natural part of life. If a mother rejects her baby and kills it, it is fine it is a natural part of life. if villagers storm a pregnant woman and kill her baby, that is not a natural action, that is a crime.
how sad. Unfortunately those 7 pictures were more entertaining then the 3 anaconda movies.
Anthony Pittarelli
they probably ate the snakes afterwards…savages!!
bob, get a life. or more appropriately, some perspective on life.
Nothing more annoying that blind environmentalists decrying the actions of people in places they’ve never lived. I second the first comment about worrying about kids and livestock/livelihood..especially since it looks like the snake was somewhere near the homes.
That snake looks to be over 25′ long! It could very easily have killed and eaten the small child pictured next to it! When you talk “rodents,” that snake would be naturally be hunting boy/dog sized “rodents,” not just rats and insects. Let the little snakes get the little critters. I’m with the folks pictured there…kill the big snake!
Awww Bob – you’d love to have 70 anacondas growing up in your front yard, wouldn’t you?
Ummm…did anyone notice the size of that thing? Would it have been any better if it was a panther attacking the village. Now multiply that by 70. Can you imagine what life would be like with 70 of those things slithering around? Of course, yes, its expected for nature to take its course and it is highly unlikely that all seventy will survive to that size, but regardless, having one that size is scary enough for me to leave town, but unfortunately for the people living there its not exactly an option. Yes its sad, boohoo, but life is survival of the fittest. The village can either eat or be eaten. Yay Darwinism.
IF I’m not mistaken, this is Suriname. Either you eat the Anaconda, or the Anaconda eats YOU ! There is nothing in between. These don’t eat rodents, these eat dogs, goats, and if none available, eat your childeren ! This village is several hours away by air from the nearest town…
A snake of this size eats maybe one goat or dog to last them YEARS! It’s not like people are going to be picked off one at a time over short period of time like in the Anaconda movies or Snakes on a Plane, where most of you seem to be getting your information to base your argument on.
A snake will avoid people if it can help it. They are often too big to eat and are dangerous prey to hunt. People are attentive and keep an eye on their children. From a strictly zoological point of view, if an organism, human or not, lets their offspring run out into the undergrowth or don’t keep alert in a region where large snakes can be found (Notice I didn’t say large snakes where common.) then those organism’s offspring are not going to last long thanks to the stupidity of the parent. If the organism is intelligent, as these people who have to live in this habitat most definitely would be, unlike certain people who’s worst nightmare is the coffee machine getting jammed, the amount of offspring lost to snake attacks, which are slim to none as it is, (4 deaths by constrictors worldwide, including people who keep them as pets.) will be minimal.
The anaconda’s Latin name derives from the Greek word that means ‘good swimmer.’ Anacondas are ambush hunters who use water as camouflage. (Their marking sort of indicates this.) An anaconda is not going to just sneak into somebody’s house and eat their children. Not unless they live in a ravine.
Plus, as anyone who payed attention in biology class could tell you, when an animal has a large amount of offspring it is because the likelihood of the offspring is slim through predators as competitors.(Many snakes are cannibals.)Anaconda 3 is not a documentary: the offspring who do survive will rarely ever reach a size that allows them to eat people.
I trust that from now on people will base their arguments on actual scientific information as opposed to unscientific whims. I would be very interested in continuing this debate if anyone is interested. ;)
I’d absolutely love 70 Anacondas in my front yard! Whilst understandable that this happened considering the location,as a snake lover I find it terribly sad to see.
Good post Molly!
Bombleman,most uneducated post on here so far! Read up!
Maybe if you live in a country where this can be controlled humanly, there are other options to getting rid of these snakes (eg. zoo or some safe house for them), but when you live in these parts of the world ( 3rd world), they dont have the luxury of finding a suitable environment for the snakes. Hence, killing them for there own safety IS their only option!
I have a friend with 5 foot python. Last week the snake got out of it’s cage two nights in a row and my buddy woke up to the snake lying parallel next to his body. Fearing the snake had somethign wrong with it, he took it to the vet. The vet advised donating the snake to a zoo or having it put to sleep. Sounds odd huh. Well it turns out that the snake had been sizing him up by stretching his body along side my friend to see if he was big enough to eat him.
Molly is somewhat correct. A constrictor of this size will have several large meals in a one year period. This is a large ambush predator-predator being a key word here. Normally submerged in water close to shore this snake when hungry will strike at just about anything that is warm blooded, exhaling carbon dioxide and within certain size limits. The strike alone (which will be to the face)can be powerful enough to break a strong man’s neck.
Do not sit in front of your computer making value judgements about people who live in and under much different circumstances than yourself.
Amazing story Tim! Next time though, don’t copy paste your fake stories off snopes.com ;P
http://www.snopes.com/critters/snakes/measured.asp
Thank you Barry!
A refreshingly well made post backed up by logic Steve. :) The snake could still pose a danger, I’m not denying that. Anaconda’s eyesight is quite poor and could readily attack a person within the same size limit as a hog, deer or caiman. But there are 4 deaths per year worldwide by constrictors. 4! Compare that to the amount of people killed by cars each year: 41,611. Ok, in the area where these people live, that statistic means less than to metropolitans. But like people who have learned to look both ways, these people will be smart enough to avoid situations that put them in danger.
(An interesting fact: Snakes detect living things through a heat-sensitive membrane on their snout and with their acute sense of smell. snakes can’t detect carbon dioxide.)
A very good point MOE MOE MONKEY. Thanks for bringing it up! ;) The issue here isn’t that a snake was killed, but that this was the only option these people had in order to insure their safety.
The world needs snakes, they perform a valuable service.
Humans on the other hand, do nothing to improve the planet.
Some of you really need to get out and se whats true for yourselves. Molly, don’t so much attention to what your biology prof. says, NONE of the creatures in question read those books. I work with tem every day and please believe me when I say, animals are ANIMALS, they’ll do as they damned well please and play by no set rules mankind establishes and thinks they have discovered. I see ranges in the size of litters, broods, clutches etc. all in the same locations (geographically) all over the board, only the averages are constant and times of feast or famine are involantary causes of subsequent population adjustments. Predators in particular are excellent at conforming and making necessary changes for survival or more frequently, to flourish.
While it may be a large ?? litter?? of serpents, the likelihood that they all survive is particularly limited to the two legged predators as well I’ll bet.
By the way, Molly, how many folks do you suppose live around snakes llike that one that get to do a lot of reporting? I’d don’t think theres any man eating snake epidemic, however, there is a great chance of losing a kid the size of te poser to a snake anywhere near that size if the opportunity arose. I’d be more interested to hear from those who deal with the behemeth snakes on a day to day basis and not for a livelihood (herpitoligist). The affects of being in the same procemity to them would be enlilghtening to hear first hand.
this is so sad but to tell u the truth only about 16 of those babies would have made it to the wild
yea right i would like to see any body that said they wouldnt kill it be placed in the same village with that snake i bet they would be thinking diffrently than
I would lety them kill if i was there.
ok,so all of you have been fighting over this since about november, right? well here it is… the people in that area lose more children and animals to anacondas than we’d even like to begin to imagine, so this has become their only option. they are probably superstitious, and like the rest of the world prone to believe wild stories about man-eating snakes. while it is very sad that this clutch will never even be able to try and survive, these villagers did what they had to in order to ensure the survival of their children, just like this mother anaconda did for years with all of her offspring. to molly and all of those who agree with her, dont think that im a cold hearted bitch or anything because these pictures broke my heart (i love all animals, but i do look at the situation with reason), those of you who scoff at the picture, i want you to imagine yourselves in that snakes place in her last few hours… how would you feel knowing that you were being hunted with no escape, and then when you’re caught, these people aren’t going to do away with you humanely… no these people who have hunted you WILL make you suffer, and all you can think about is the young inside you that are about to hatch and realize that they are about to die too… a sobering thought isnt it?
im not here to fight, i will not stand for people who mock the suffering of animals because they are “inferrior” beings, animals feel the same emotions as humans, but their emotions are pure and untainted… those who say they dont really understand what is happening to them need a reality check! this mother would have ensured that her young were ina safe place, and that means as far away from humans as she could get them, she might not have had anything to do with them after their birth (birth being used as they hatch inside their mothers and are then “born” probably as a way to further protect them.), but she will do her best to see them as safely into this world as possible.
these villagers remember stories of children and livestock being taken by anacondas and dont want the same for their own, so they are taught from a young age to fear and hate these giant snakes, this fear breeds ignorance, and the hate becomes indifference. while im sure this snake commited no such crime she was still a threat to the livelyhood of the village, they neutralized this threat in the way they have been taught for probably centuries. this snake had no chance of survival unless she had left, but this was the territory she had fought to possess and keep, its not likely that she would have left for anyother reason than drought or famine… animals are like that, they know what is theirs and will fight even humans to keep it, we are stupid, we have no rights to these places that we are slowly stealing away from these magnificent beings. we could learn alot from them if we only just tried, but we are ignorant, we believe that because we were created in God’s image that we should decide the fate of the world. i say that God’s only mistake was making us in a way that we could even believe this. the snake knew her place in this world was to hunt and give birth to the toung she was carrying when she died, just like the capibarra know it is their place to be hunted by those like her, they try to escape, but they know that at least one of them will be her meal… but humans, we dont see ourselveshigher beings and as such above the status of prey, we are not, we have muscle which is meat and as such we are fair game to a hungry animal. WE ARE STILL JUST ANIMALS! get that through your heads
killing the pregnant anaconda was wrong but it is all these people know to do to protect their young, get over it this is how the world turns we are evil beings. she did what she was designed to do and they did what we are made to do. thats all i have to say but its food for thought for all of you fighting over her death… just think of all the other little anacondas who will now be able to find enough food to survive…
as an after thought… anthony, you are a pathetic half-wit, even my little brother can see that while it may have been nesescary to kill the snake, it is not entertainment. grow up or shove your head in a hole and suffocate there!
dude…. Bubbles is hot when she’s mad. After reading through all of this garbage, it was nice to find a post that was well written from the perspective of grammar and sentence structure. The reast of you are embarrassing.
you are, thank you very much for the compliment. i was not, however, mad… i was well beyond that point. i will agree with you that most of what these people have written is complete garbage. none of this was written with grammar and sentence structure in mind, i just happen to be a writer (outside of shcool) and it distresses me when i see stupid people fighting over something they cannot control and do not understand, most people don’t see that what happened is over and nothing they say will change that. people seem to have it in their minds that there is only one way to see things; their way. what the villagers did to this anaconda is the same thing they’ve done for centuries, the snake wasnt wasted, they did eat her and her babies. gross to us but normal to them. people need to take their heads out of their asses and see that there is more to this world than what they believe.
***none of this is said with an angry intonnation, i state the facts of what i see and believe, if you feel differently please feel free to say so, i will take your words into account and possibly even agree with you on some points. im not here to fight, just to set the record straight.***
Now I can see why they killed this thing even though I’m a fan of snakes, I understand that.
But the fact they split the stomach open, lined up all the baby snakesand f–ked about with the snakes body afterwards for the sake of photographs os fairly sickening. To me, anyway.
Also, little kids who swear like that in photographs and think they’re mint make me want to punch them.
It’s so big.
I would agree with Joshua here and repeat his query “How is this worse than abortion… Boo hoo over a snake but not a babys life… How sad”!!
it is basically the same damn thing, they are all babies and therefore they are bothworth tears. the reason for it being said that this is worse than an abortion is probably because there are 70 innocents beaing killed not 1… both cases are equally worth our tears. a baby is a baby, and an abortion is an abortion!
je trouve sa degueulasse que c’est villageoi se soit amuser a tuer sans reson c’est anaconda.se sont des animaux qui attaque que si il se sente agresser et je pense pas que c’est anaconda se soit approcher de leur village
Wow, so many opions so many things to be said about a large, pregnant snake, the was killed…….I for one believe that such an aninal should be protected, but that is just my thinking. I strongly agree with Molly and many others that support the poster.An anaconda or any animal that is preditory will on occasion ttack humans, but most likley on dispreate measures, starving, loss of habit, loss of food extra… And secondly no matter what animal it is, a rabbit, deer or very large anaconda that is pregnant has the unirgorable urge to keep the young andin this girls case youngs, protected. Any animal will not risk the lves of the unborn when carring cause of the simiple fact of speices presforvation, and that is not down by humans but by the animals themselves.
Secondly, if you would notice that the head of this girl is looped off…. does any1 know what the means? Well I can tell you. The lopping of the head of the anaconda is a ritual thingy that the people do down there, so this was mostly done by Sport, or the humans, as we like to do, hunt the animal for sport and fun, meaning the they most likly went into the forest to kill the snake, knowing that it was there, not because of fear, terror or in their minds self presitavtion of the human race, but for fun!!!
Next a snake that large and that full of babies would not be doing much but sitting in a tree, hole, or anywhere else for quite some time, during this time they would not eat. They would be slow, tired , but if provoke defend so taken advantage ?
You are, as stated more likely to get eaten by a shark, or bear ,or mauled by your neighbors dog than a snake no matter the size would attack a human, and eat it!!!! SNAKES DON’T DO THAT!!!!
Nautrally thier have been cases, but look it up “how many people die from getting eaten by a snake each year?” Answear………… you find it!!!! Sorry getting a little frizzled here. One more thing to talk about, Read DannyD message “that snake would be naturally be hunting boy/dog sized “rodents,”” yes a snake wouldn’t go after a rat, but it would go after a, jaguar, crocadile, or the world’s largest rodent a capybara and even a tapir before it would even consider going to a boy/dog, so in a since it would be helping the people. I’ve also agreed on some point the bubbles make, exspecial the part that we are all animals. We think we are strong because we are human, but think if their was something greater than us!!
Man no more room….oh well u get what i mean….morns a mother and her 70 babies…………..Markus P. Landsin 3/26/09
that thing its just 2 big 2 have around.i think they did the rite thing.that snake probably has terrorised that village.becos some of them are fishermen.that thing can even swallow a full grown man.
timi, ur an idiot! anacondas do NOT attac fishermen. humans are not a meal that these snakes willingly take on, in fact anacondas take every precaution to stay hidden from large mammals so that they can live a peaceful life. the only time humans have to fear anacondas are during the mating season when they are all a bunch of raging hormones and when an anaconda is pregnant. this snake probably avoided the village as long as possible, but becase of expansion she had very little food left in her territory and so took a dog as hoer final meal before giving birth. that final meal would have lasted her sseveral months. so she was probably killed for sport.
how sad
for all this thinks this villagers must be sorry ………..hehehehehehehehe
the size of the babies / mother are such that they would *not* eat insects …. unless thats one damn biiiiggg grasshopper thats the size of a small rat.
these snakes as pointed out by others would eat prey the size of rodents or larger when born and growing to adulthood.
the villagers had their reason(s) to dispatch this snake. Daily in the USA wayward California mountain lions, various types of bears … and even the 30,000 “pet” Pythons are killed by wildlife fish & game authorities.
its so sad how can they just kill so many lives . who gave them the rights . they must and should get the punishment. what ever the reason is…………………….
Wena Ryan-Dont u dare feel sorry for dat devil!!!!!it can it eat u alive.
I was explaining to someone from the south that by killing off the snakes the rat population will skyrocket.I hate rats !
!Thats BS.! Thay was right to do that. If not it would probaly someone in ther sleep so by them killing it. It saved many lives.+
Check yo mind .Boy that was wrong of you to say that stop talking sh**. Get right ,the snake was over there because it was looking to lay her babies
I for one believe this- you are all making this sound like this was the last anaconda alive to be able to reproduce. It’s not. Nature has its way of working and there will be more. Trust me, this is not the end of the world if one pregnant anaconda gets killed. Yes its a tragedy to see what happened to that snake, but I don’t live where these people do. I can’t say what I would have done if I were in that position. But you know what, us humans are at the top of the food chain and I think we need to keep it that way. Don’t judge what these people have done, they are only surviving which is what every single being on this earth does. Its the “circle of life” (excuse the cliche haha)
I’m not here to oppose anyone’s opinions. Personally I respect everyones ideas and I carefully read everyone’s comments. This is just my opinion, so please respect it like I respected yours.
I AM DISAPOINTED
Molly made an intelligent post. Snakes(constrictors or fang barers)generally shy from humans.I was in a snake infested school surrounding for 6 years and only had one case of snake bite. The guy survived. Pythons were quite present but were rarely spotted. Big snakes are quite shy.
y would y kill the snake if its not bothering you?… kum on y couldnt u leave the poor snake alone
beacarefull Anaconda very dangerous the snake is atack you familiy and yours cows
Hai….
First of all, I appreciate the villagers. We know, how the snakes (like Anaconda and cobra) are dangerous to mankind. We may not harm them, but, unfortunately they may harm us. Having Anaconda around us, become threat to human and animal lives. Survival becomes difficult. Keeping this in mind, there is nothing wrong, if at all the villagers kills that anaconda.
that was soo sad they might have eat it they are so bad poor anaconda!!!!!!!!!!!
can”they leave the snake alone and she was pregnent if any one will kill you and kill your baby insid then soooooo sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stupid people….poor snake…..:(
kill dat persons
Anaconda is very big and strong snake.Anaconda is king of all the snakes.