Anacondas are large, non-venomous boas found in tropical South America. Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world, and (together with the reticulated python of southeast Asia) arguably the longest. Specimens of up to around 30 feet have been caught or killed and examined.[citation needed]
They live mostly in water, such as the Amazon River. While this snake poses a danger to humans[citation needed], and there are several ascertained cases of people being killed by it[citation needed], it does not regularly hunt humans. Its standard prey includes fish, river fowl, and occasionally domesticated goats or ponies that venture near or into the water.
Threat from dangerous Anacondas is a familiar plot in comics, movies and adventure stories set in the Amazon jungle.
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