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THE BIGGEST SNAKE IN THE WORLD.THE WORD ANACONDA MEANS GOOD SWIMMER. AQAUTIC E.G SWAMPS,STREAMS AND RIVERS,6MONTHS OF MATING SEASON,HUNT AT NIGHT AND FEED IN AQAUTIC PREY. SOMETIMES LIVE IN SHALLOW CAVES.UNDER GO MOLTING VERY MONTH. WEATHER OF LOW RAINFALL FAVOURS MATING SEASON. FEMALES REMAIN IN ONE PLACE DURING MATING SEASON.100 OFFSPRINGS BORN,NO PARENTAL CARE.
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PERFOMED DURING THE DAY ON MATING SEASON. SINCE 2:12MALES COILED AROUND IN ONE FEMALE. POPULATION COUNTED AND MALES REMOVED TO LAB FOR FURTHER STUDY WHILE FEMALES ARE LEFT TO ATTRACT OTHER MALES.
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PERFORMED DURING THE DAY ON MATING SEASON. FIRST WEEK SNAKES MARKED AND RELEASED. SNAKES ALLOWED TO MIX FOR FOUR DAYS,THEN RECAPTURED. AN AVERAGE AND% OF COUNTED SNAKES(RECAPTURED)WAS CACULATED. .BY DEVIDING NUMBER OF MARKED BY TOTAL RECAPTUREDTHEN MULTIPLIED BY 1OO.
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POPULATION SIZE WAS ESTIMATED. BY THE NUMBER OF SPECIES THAT WAS FIRSTLY MARKED TIMES % OF POPULATION RECAPTURED. MAIN PROBLEM EVERYBODY WAS SCARED THAT ALSO AACCURACY.
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http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/resou rces/laurie_vitt/Emurinus.gif/view.html http://www.wildmagazine.org/facts/Anaconda.asp ?page=/facts/Anaconda.asp
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