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Difference Between Python and Anaconda

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Pythons and Anacondas are no doubt the greatest snakes in the world. Some people think that anaconda and python are one and the same. However, anacondas and pythons belong to two different families of snake.

Anacondas belong to the boa family and are found in South America and the Amazon basin. A python belongs to the family Pythonidae. It prowls the thick and dense forest of South Asia, South East Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Anaconda is the heaviest and the biggest snake in the world. On the other hand, the python is no doubt the longest snake in the world. An anaconda can weigh as much as 550 pounds or more and can grow up to 25 feet. In contrast, the python can grow as long as 33 feet or more. However, a 20-foot anaconda will outweigh a much longer python.

The anaconda is not a choosy eater. As long as the prey can be overpowered, then it is included in the anaconda menu. In fact, some anacondas can overpower a crocodile and eat it whole. The python however is a bit choosy with its choice of food. This giant snake loves to eat mammals and birds only.

Anaconda is aquatic and lives in marshes, swamps, and rivers. It can swim very well. The anaconda’s eyes are located on top of its head. This allows the snake to see preys while submerged in the water. Meanwhile, the python loves to perch on trees and stay on drier land. This snake can see in the dark. That is why it can ambush hapless mammals and birds at night.

The anaconda bites its prey and drowns the poor creature in the water. The python, on the other hand, constricts and crushes animals before eating them.

These two snakes are considered giants. But remember that anacondas are heavier and bulkier while pythons are longer and more agile.

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  1. Hello let me introuduce myself my name is Dr Janice Hiltred i am a snake specilist in mexio. Im not mexican i live there i was born in orlando florida in 1977. I then moved to mexico after graduating from university and then i travelled and also appeared in many documentries. Yes i must say this is very realistic document but there has been a new scientific break through in these complex reptiles. These are highly secure doccuments so unfortunally i cannot tell you them but i can tell you that these snakes are truly realated because of a new gene that scientists reacently discovered and thats all i can say because the scientist are very uptight cheaking every last detail making sure this is positivley true and trust me by the way the experemints are going it is. They hope to make a documentry about it all soon once there sucpicions are confirmed, so once its all out you can change this webste !!

    Kind Regards
    Dr Janice Hiltred

  2. This answer is quite inaccurate. This is obvious when considering the Burmese python experience in Florida.

    “The anaconda is not a choosy eater. As long as the prey can be overpowered, then it is included in the anaconda menu. In fact, some anacondas can overpower a crocodile and eat it whole. The python however is a bit choosy with its choice of food. This giant snake loves to eat mammals and birds only.”
    “Anaconda is aquatic and lives in marshes, swamps, and rivers. It can swim very well. The anaconda’s eyes are located on top of its head. This allows the snake to see preys while submerged in the water. Meanwhile, the python loves to perch on trees and stay on drier land. This snake can see in the dark. That is why it can ambush hapless mammals and birds at night.”

    Burmese Pythons are readily hunting alligators in the water proving both these statements false.

    “The anaconda bites its prey and drowns the poor creature in the water. The python, on the other hand, constricts and crushes animals before eating them.”

    This is also false. As Anacondas do constrict their prey as well.

    http://youtu.be/b_r96ddefpk
    http://youtu.be/ubKAoEpvG7E

    • U guys r all idiots .its simple the retics an other pythons clearly hunt and kill the largest prey in an out the water.bitches

    • Yes they do constrict their prey along with having 6 rows of teeth. So when they bite down on their prey they don’t or can’t let go. They immediately start to wrap themselves around their prey. After less that 10 to 15 minutes they start to eat.

  3. Bitch please….

    Difference between Python and Anaconda:

    Anaconda – a snake
    Python – a programming language

    hahaha

  4. OK well you did not read that carefully enough no where did he say pythons don’t go in water or hate to go in water they just stated pythons love to perch in trees and likes dry land. all reptiles love water that’s a secondary way for them get hydration

    “This giant snake loves to eat mammals and birds only.” is the only untrue statement in this

    I’m going to also state that Pythons are indigenous to south Asia and Sahara Africa
    not USA panama and other countries

    anaconda are more know to drown their prey but they do constrict as well
    pythons constrict not drown

  5. I found that this was an amazingly helpful sight. However, I live in south America so I know hope that I don’t run into an anaconda. I would most likely faint upon sighting one.

  6. our neighbours in Thailand set up a chicken coop on government land (illegally) and a giant anaconda devoured 4 of their chickens. It was a funny sight to see animal control drag the damn thing away with several noticeable bulges. Just recently my wife had to call animal control for another visitor in our mango tree: a nice Python that just finished off a squirrel.

    I think the article is pretty accurate. The anaconda surfaced after the big flood in 2011.

    Somebody gimme a cookie.

    • @ The Ajarn..there are no anaconda’s in Thailand, just pythons.

      @ everybody..Python’s and anaconda’s are not closely related. Python lay eggs while anaconda and other members of the boa family have life young

  7. all of you are wrong

    Anaconda; heavy snake

    Python ; long snake

  8. Big snake little snake; bad! Dead snake; GOOD!!!!

  9. The longest Anaconda ever recorded was 29 ft.

    So you can update your info on the Anaconda length.

  10. A Python sneaked at night to our house located within the polytechnic staff quarters here in Calabar. It successfully gained entrance through the kitchen door left unsecured and swallowed one of the pregnant ram. It could not move any further.

    They said the snake came because Marsh and water surrounding the housing estate.

    I think Python also live in marshy area.

  11. Your all correct. (pff)

    Honestly, your all retarded.

  12. From past reading, it seems pythons are Old World constrictors (reticulated python being the longest), and the boas are the New World constrictors (anacondas, green, black or yellow being the bulkiest). A boa can live where it wants….Emerald Tree boas live in trees. Anacondas, because of their bulk, live in or near water, and anything living in the water usually gets quite large, from hippos to whales, alligators and crocodiles and sharks. There is evidence, by the way, that whales started out on land. But I digress. An anaconda has a pattern of dark round spots on its lighter green, yellow or grey body. There is a sand boa, an Emerald (green) Tree boa, and a few others. A reticulated python, like the anaconda, is sometimes big enough to eat a grown human. It happens. A Burmese python, also…almost got the owner of the snake emporium in Wisconsin Dells. The pythons are ornately patterned snakes, seeing how they live in trees. They need to look like leaves on the jungle floor, too. A 30 ft. python is lighter in weight than a 20 ft. anaconda. By the way, in The Jungle Book, it was a reticulated python that was trying to eat Mowgli, helping him to “stay in the jungle”. Now, I hope my spelling was good, even if I’m not a scientist, but I do have a degree in art and anthropology. You may not be impressed, but maybe the snakes are.

  13. If Janice is a doctor, then I would have no problem becoming one. At least, I can spell. Come on Janice, do you need a spelling tutor?? I’m available.

  14. Evolution made anacondas give birth because they live in swampy areas not suitable for laying eggs and they easily adapted to drowning prey because they live and hunt in swamps, so for these reasons I believe they are from the same family, only different continents and conditions.

  15. Thanks a lot for letting me know the difference and secrets behind them. Very helpful site.

  16. Why not with chemicals kills all of the Phyons.
    In Vietnam we used Agent Orange. A chemical solution is absolute.
    Alva O Vance
    Co Founder Vietnam Vets for Freedom.

  17. 33 feet? Are you completely retarded? There’s not a single snake on earth that even comes close to that kind of length. This article is total bullshit

  18. Nice one! Well explained, the two big snakes confuses me. Both can eat human I guess

  19. This so helpful, wether the write up is right or wrong, all I know is that no matter the size of the snake either big or large, vanonus or no vanonus all there all deserve to be kill because they are treat to the humans environment.

  20. My anaconda dont want none unless u got buns hun

  21. This is for those who insist that someone isn’t a doctor, or any other profession, if they can’t spell. Most people who post will eventually make an error in spelling. It could be because of not proofreading before you post. Doesn’t matter. What does matter is that you all judged this person, and decided he or she was lying. No wonder we have so many problems in the world.

  22. I am only afraid of two kinds of snakes; big ones, and little ones.

  23. I’m only afraid of two types of snakes,big ones and little ones.

  24. A person that is really intelligent do not judge others. So a person that judge others shows no intellect at all. Might better go back to first grade and start learning ABC in silence.

  25. I was in the amazon forest in 2020 where we conducted an extensive research on Anaconda. In the days that followed we tried to upload our findings online which we were unable to do due to poor internet connection. A friend suggested a wifi repeater from Wifiblast International. I don’t know if this will work in the amazon.

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