Other pets (pics and discussions)

[mikem]

i'll get some pics of him up soon. he liked to bite in the beginning, but he's super calm now. his parents were very calm specimens as well and it seems to carry over with these guys. the father was about 10ft at 7 years of age. he shouldn't get much bigger than that. the females are the monsters though! they're the big giants you usually see on television shows.

[Charis]

Hmmm, that's interesting to know. So there is quite a bit of dimorphism between Anacondas? Kind of like garters and Rosy boas, to name a few.

[EasternGirl]

Yes...that is interesting. I did not know that. I thought that all anacondas were huge. (not that 10 feet is not big...but I was thinking more along the lines of 15-20 feet) I was interested to find out recently that the biggest snake in the world...judging by length... is actually a reticulated python and not an anaconda. I think it's name is Fluffy...lol. It's picture is in the Guiness Book of World Records. Yep..Fluffy...24 feet: WORLD'S LONGEST SNAKE, Guinness World Records 2011 , PYTHON, ON EXHIBIT - YouTube

[ConcinusMan]

With the exception of a couple of very misguided eugenicists, nobody's pretending there is such a thing as an ideal Homo sapiens. That's the point. But when it comes to dog breeds, that's exactly what's going on.

Exactly what I am getting at.

[ConcinusMan]

Hmmm, that's interesting to know. So there is quite a bit of dimorphism between Anacondas? Kind of like garters and Rosy boas, to name a few.

Not exactly. It's just that "anaconda" can refer to more than a single species. Just like "garter snake" can. There are yellow anacondas and green anacondas. It's not dimorphism, they are two different species. If there are two different morphs within a single population and species, you could call it dimorphism.

[Charis]

So yellow anacondas are bigger or smaller generally than green anacondas? Not male green anacondas are generally much smaller than female green anacondas? Because, in the literature I've read anyway, dimorphorism is used to refer to a species with a marked difference in size between genders within the same species. That was the way I was using it and what I thought he was saying.

[ConcinusMan]

That would be sexual dimorphism (difference between the sexes) you're referring to. When I say "dimorphism" in regards to the laterally striped concinus', or any other snake, I mean there's two color morphs, regardless of sexual differences. I misunderstood because sexual wasn't specified.

The green anaconda is the largest snake. The yellow is a different species and doesn't get near as large.

[EasternGirl]

Well the anacondas that I have seen...the one at the zoo and a couple in books that were yellow were huge. So how big do the green ones get? Do you know how big the biggest yellow one and the biggest green one are (were)?

[mikem]

hey sorry for not keeping up here. yes, they are sexually dimorphic. biggest green according to wiki was 24ft 7in and estimated to weigh between 3-400lbs. yellows are smaller averaging about 12ft.

[EasternGirl]

Wow...I thought the yellow ones were big. I don't know if I've even seen a green one...I must have though.