VIDEO: The World’s Biggest Anaconda Was Caught in the Amazon River

Do you like snakes? If you do then you are one of the few people that actually do. Most people find them scary and would never go near one. The only thing that people that love snakes and those that hate them can agree upon is the fact that snakes are, in fact, really interesting creatures.

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With marvelous bodies that allow them to slither undetected and sneak up on their pray but, shockingly, enough strength to attack and kill things that seem to be a lot bigger and powerful than they are.

And if this weren’t enough and being squished to death wasn’t enough, a lot of them are also venomous and with one bite they can make sure that people and animals alike will not survive. And let’s not forget that they can swallow their pray hole and expand many times their size to do so.

If there is one thing that’s more interesting than a huge snake that could kill people and eat them in one single bite then that thing certainly is a snake that is the biggest one that has ever been caught. And since the biggest snake of all is the anaconda, imagine just how huge the biggest anaconda is going to be. And then probably think of another one as its extension because you probably aren’t even close to the length of this enormous creature. The best part is that it was caught on camera for everyone to see and marvel at its size.

According to mirror.co.uk, the world’s longest anaconda has been discovered in the Amazon jungle – and it measures in at a whopping 17 feet long. Yes, it’s that big.

The huge reptile was uncovered during filming for new BBC documentary Tribes, Predators and Me. In the first episode presenter Gordon Buchanan joins a Waorani tribal family in Ecuador’s Amazon jungle as they search for giant anacondas.

The tribe, who know this remote rainforest better than anyone else, teach Gordon their secrets for surviving here, using blow pipes and sharpened sticks to hunt monkeys and wild pigs.
But his greatest challenge is to help them catch and release a massive anaconda, which is the Amazon’s most dangerous animal.

The tribe also believe the proven maneater can hold the key to their future and has high spiritual importance to them.
There is also a scientific reason to capture the snake, as the Waorani are losing their land to oil exploration, prompting scientists to test the effects of this on the animals.

The anaconda caught and then released in the programme is the longest ever recorded at more than 17 feet long.
In the show Gordon has two weeks to learn the Waorani tribe’s ancient wildlife secrets.

Along the way he sees the mysterious Amazon river dolphins, joins the Waorani on a dangerous peccary spear hunt and sees how the women garden within the forest and how they befriend wild animals such as monkeys, parrots and tapirs.