2024-03-28 09:48:52
The world’s largest anaconda has been found dead in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. There is a possibility that he was shot by hunters.
According to the Independent and USA Today on the 27th (local time), the world’s largest anaconda, ‘Ana Julia’, discovered on the 25th of last month by a research team led by Professor Brian Fry, a biology professor at the University of Queensland, was found dead.
“It is with great pain that I inform you that this powerful large green anaconda has been found dead,” Professor Freak Bonk, a member of Professor Frye’s research team, said on Instagram.
He continued, “I heard that (Ana Julia) died after being shot in multiple places,” and “there has been no official confirmation of the exact cause of death yet.” “She is so sad and angry,” she wrote.
Professor Fry’s team, who was filming the documentary ‘Pole to Pole’ for National Geographic, a division of the Walt Disney Company, discovered a new species of green anaconda ‘Ana Julia’ while exploring the Amazon region of Ecuador, South America, on the 25th of last month. ‘Ana Julia’ is 6.3m long and weighs 200kg.
It was also reported that an eyewitness report said that an anaconda measuring 7.5 meters in length and weighing approximately 500 kilograms was also captured at the site where the anaconda was discovered.
According to the British Museum of Natural History, the green anaconda is the largest and heaviest snake in the world, with the largest recorded to date reaching a length of 8.43 m and a weight of 227 kg.
At the time, a video showing the research team swimming in the river with ‘Ana Julia’ was also released. The research team emphasized that this discovery is very important for conserving anacondas, which are apex predators and are essential for maintaining ecosystem balance.
The research team also added that because anacondas accumulate large amounts of oil-related heavy metals in their bodies, they are also useful in checking the ecological impact of oil spills.
(Seoul = News 1)
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