Curated OER
Anaconda
Hungry, 13-feet long, and ready to pounce, the anaconda has its eyes on one of the largest rodents in the world, the capybara. The snake takes its time to focus on capturing its food for a very important reason. Watch this video to find...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Animal Videos: Anaconda Hunting for Food
Video of a female anaconda catching, crushing, and swallowing a capybara, a rodent that can weigh up to one hundred pounds. This meal must sustain it for seven months, until it gives birth to its babies. (Length: 2 min. 48 sec.)
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kid Vision: Amazon Field Trip
Visit the "Amazon Voyage" exhibit at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. Learn about maps, experience the river underwater, see how real stingrays and anacondas camouflage themselves, and celebrate at a fish festival!...
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Anaconda Feeding
Academy biologists feed the Academy's green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) a euthanized guinea pig. The guinea pig was not served alive, because it could possibly damage the museum's specimen. Additionally, it would experience unneccessary...