It was uploaded on YouTube with the title 'Giant anaconda crossing the road' and without naming the location. However, claims that the anaconda measures an incredible 50-feet are not actually true.ДЄccording to fact-checking website That's Nonsense, one of the earliest instances of the video appearing on the Internet is from April 2018. In the clip, a supersized snake can be seen slithering from one end of a 'river' to the other. The video has garnered more than 7 lakh views on the microblogging platform. It was reposted by a popular Twitter account this morning along with the caption, 'An anaconda measuring more than 50 feet found in the Xingu River, Brazil.'ДЄn anaconda measuring more than 50 feet found in the Xingu River, Brazil /FGDvyO76sn- The Dark Side Of Nature October 30, 2020 According to several versions of the video, it was filmed in the Xingu River in Brazil. notaeus) is much smaller and has pairs of overlapping spots. The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), also called the giant anaconda, sucuri, or water kamudi, is an olive-coloured snake with alternating oval-shaped black spots. ItвЂ™s possible, she added, that the males tried to insert their penises into the snake.A video going viral on Twitter claims to show a 50-foot anaconda crossing a river in Brazil - but is it real? The video in question is not a new one - it has cropped up on social media time and again since it first surfaced online in 2018. anaconda, (genus Eunectes), either of two species of constricting, water-loving snakes found in tropical South America. She has even observed male bottlenose dolphins trying to penetrate the blowhole of a rescued pilot whale in an aquarium. They often use their penises for tactile interactions, Dr. Researchers who study dolphins are well aware of the animalsвЂ™ sexual proclivities, such as rubbing their genitals on toys or inserting their penises into objects, animate and inanimate. The aroused males could have been having a sexual romp with each other before the snake became entangled. вЂњIt could have been something to rub on.вЂќ вЂњIt could have been sexually stimulating for them,вЂќ said Diana Reiss, a marine mammal scientist and cognitive psychologist at Hunter College in New York who was not involved with the study. Something else from the photos was notable - the male dolphinsвЂ™ erect penises.

Wild, who has observed bottlenose dolphins using shells as tools. вЂњThis is the first time IвЂ™ve heard of dolphins playing with a large snake,вЂќ added Dr. Of all the things one could pick up, вЂњthis seems a little extraordinary,вЂќ she said. Wild wonders if the snake was injured or dead before the dolphins got to it. ItвЂ™s more plausible the juveniles were observing because they were curious, she says.ДЄnd because anacondas are strong, Dr.

With how lively dolphins are, вЂњplaying seems like a pretty good answer,вЂќ said Omar Entiauspe-Neto, one of the paperвЂ™s authors and a taxonomist at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.Д«ut Sonja Wild, a behavioral ecologist at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, who was not part of the study, was skeptical that the interaction was purposely instructive. In this case, the team did not see where the snake ended up. Other than a single case of cannibalism, researchers havenвЂ™t documented the serpents being eaten. BoliviaвЂ™s native Beni anacondas are apex predators. Reichle said.Д«ecause of how long this interaction went on, the team suspects play - not predation. вЂњI donвЂ™t think that the snake had a very good time,вЂќ Dr. But because the snake was handled for at least seven minutes, much of this submerged, it probably perished. Anacondas are semiaquatic and can hold their breaths for some time. But some of the six animals they saw kept their heads above the turbid water for an unusually long time.ДЄt one point, two male dolphins seemingly swam in sync, a snake held by the animalsвЂ™ mouths. Reichle says Bolivian river dolphins usually swim below the surface, and sightings often catch only a fin or a tail.

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