Anaconda VS Python

[BlueOvalFitter]

Which snake do you think would win in a battle?
I wish l could own a Python where l live. When l lived in FL. my son and l owned (6) snakes. Our favorite was our 9' Red Tail Boa. We also had a 5' Red Rat snake we raised from a baby (4" long).
My son found an 8' Indigo snake at my friend's house but we couldn't keep it. It's an endangered species.

https://stories.app.goo.gl/G8Mx

 

[BeerCan]

I thought this was going to be about programming

 

[KCJeep]

I thought it was going to be about Colts.

 

[Kira]

I thought it was going to be two female comic book / action heroes.

 

[wpod]

I thought it was going to be about Colts.

Indeed !

 

[JohnnyG]

Yeah, OK, thanks!
https://reptilesmagazine.com/two-green-anacondas-found-on-floridas-space-coast/

 

[Pelican]

Which snake do you think would win in a battle?
I wish l could own a Python where l live. When l lived in FL. my son and l owned (6) snakes. Our favorite was our 9' Red Tail Boa. We also had a 5' Red Rat snake we raised from a baby (4" long).
My son found an 8' Indigo snake at my friend's house but we couldn't keep it. It's an endangered species.

https://stories.app.goo.gl/G8Mx

The "average" python may have 1' or 2' on the anaconda, but the latter is 3x as heavy and has a lot more muscles, no contest here!

 

[vavavroom]

Anacondas and pythons can hybridize.

 

[gman2304]

Doesn’t Florida offer a bounty on these things?

 

[JohnnyG]

Doesn’t Florida offer a bounty on these things?

Yes. And a pretty big one too!

https://www.sfwmd.gov/our-work/python-program

And while we're at it, here's an interesting article:

https://www.fieldandstream.com/adventures/python-bounty-hunters-florida/

 

[stormgol]

The reticulated python is among the few snakes that prey on humans. On April 9, 2015, the species was added to the Lacey Act list in the United States, prohibiting import and interstate transport due to its "injurious" history with humans.[38] Attacks on humans are not common, but this species has been responsible for several reported human fatalities, in both the wild and captivity. Considering the known maximum prey size, a full-grown reticulated python can open its jaws wide enough to swallow a human, but the width of the shoulders of some adult Homo sapiens can pose a problem for even a snake with sufficient size. Reports of human fatalities and human consumption (the latest examples of consumption of an adult human being well authenticated) include:

• A report of a visit of Antonio van Diemen, Governor-General of the Dutch East India Company, to the Banda Islands in 1638, includes a description of an enslaved woman who, when tending to a garden on the volcanic island of Gunung Api, was strangled by a snake of "24 houtvoeten" (slightly over seven meters) in length, and then swallowed whole. The snake, having become slow after ingesting such a large prey, was subsequently shot by Dutch soldiers and brought to the Governor-General to be looked at, with its victim still inside.[39] Although the species was not named, the only snake found in Banda matching this description is the reticulated python.
• In early 20th-century Indonesia: On Salibabu island, North Sulawesi, a 14-year-old boy was killed and supposedly eaten by a specimen 5.17 m (17 ft 0 in) in length. Another incident involved a woman reputedly eaten by a "large reticulated python", but few details are known.[40]
• In the early 1910s or in 1927, a jeweller went hunting with his friends and was apparently eaten by a 6 m (19 ft 8 in) python after he sought shelter from a rainstorm in or under a tree. Supposedly, he was swallowed feet-first, perhaps the easiest way for a snake to actually swallow a human.[41]
• In 1932, Frank Buck wrote about a teenaged boy who was eaten by a pet 25 ft (7.6 m) reticulated python in the Philippines. According to Buck, the python escaped, and when it was found, a human child's shape was recognized inside the snake, and turned out to be the son of the snake's owner.[42]
• Among a small group of Aeta negritos in the Philippines, six deaths by pythons were said to have been documented within a period of 40 years, plus one who died later of an infected bite.[37]
• In September 1995, a 29-year-old rubber tapper from the southern Malaysian state of Johor was reported to have been killed by a large reticulated python. The victim had apparently been caught unaware and was squeezed to death. The snake had coiled around the lifeless body with the victim's head gripped in its jaws when it was stumbled upon by the victim's brother. The python, reported as measuring 23 ft (7.0 m) long and weighing more than 300 lb, was killed soon after by the arriving police, who shot it four times.[29]
• In October 2008, a 25-year-old woman appeared to have been killed by a 13-foot (4.0 m) pet reticulated python. The apparent cause of death was asphyxiation. The snake was later found in the bedroom in an agitated state.[43]
• In January 2009, a 3-year-old boy was wrapped in the coils of a 18 ft (5.5 m) pet reticulated python, turning blue. The boy's mother, who had been petsitting the python on behalf of a friend, rescued the toddler by gashing the python with a knife. The snake was later euthanized because of its wounds.[44]
• In December 2013, a 59-year-old security guard was strangled to death while trying to capture a python near the Bali Hyatt, a luxury hotel on Indonesia's resort island. The incident happened around 3 am as the 4.5-m (15-ft) python was crossing a road near the hotel. The victim had offered to help capture the snake, which had been spotted several times before near the hotel in the Sanur, Bali, area and escaped back into nearby bushes.[45]
• In March 2017, the body of Akbar Salubiro, a 25-year-old farmer in Central Mamuju Regency, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, was found inside the stomach of a 7 m (23 ft 0 in) reticulated python. He had been declared missing from his palm tree plantation, and the people searching for him found the python the next day with a large bulge in its stomach. They killed the python and found the whole body of the missing farmer inside. This was the first fully confirmed case of a person being eaten by a python. The process of retrieving the body from the python's stomach was documented by pictures and videos taken by witnesses.[46][47][48]
• In June 2018, a 54-year-old Indonesian woman in Muna Island, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, was killed and eaten by a 23-ft python. The woman went missing one night while working in her garden, and the next day, a search party was organized after some of her belongings were found abandoned in the garden. The python was found near the garden with a large bulge in its body. The snake was killed and carried into town, where it was cut open, revealing the woman's body completely intact.[49] A video of the snake being gutted was posted online.[7]
• In June 2020, a 16-year-old Indonesian boy was attacked and killed by a 7 m (23 ft 0 in) long python in Bombana Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The incident took place near a waterfall at Mount Kahar in Rumbia sub-district. The victim was separated from his four friends in the woods. When he screamed, his friends came to help and found him encoiled by a large python. Villagers came to help and managed to kill the snake using a parang machete. However, the victim had already suffocated.[50]

 

[wemay]

Reticulated Python - longest snake in the world
Green Anaconda - Larges snake in the world (weight)

If you ever see two of them side by side (wild specimens) of equal length or the retic being proportionately longer, it's not even a fair fight. The Anaconda is a much larger animal.

In order of aggression (personal experience from when i was heavy into this stuff)

African Rock python
Reticulated Python
Amethystine Python
Green Anaconda
Indian (Burmese) Python

But this kind of stuff would be excessively rare since Boa's (anaconda) are New World Species from Central / South America and the Largest Pythons are Old World except for what's now found in Florida.

 

[nthach]

I thought this was going to be about programming

You’re not that far off. There is a data science specific distribution of Python called Anaconda.