Good evening dear readers

I am preparing related materials for the upcoming new video. In my ancient library, I found a piece of dusty historical information about the red-tailed anaconda. This Gothic history touches on the species' characteristics, behavior, and cultural beliefs of its early inhabitants.


Before the story begins, let us briefly introduce the historical background: In the middle of the 19th century, rumbling steam cruise ships carried European explorers and scholars to the New World in batches for inspection. They not only brought back a variety of animal and plant specimens, but also brought back the remaining local myths and folk beliefs.


These 19th-century records are valuable because in the following hundred years, these ancient beliefs about species gradually dissipated among the people with the colonial expansion of Spain and Portugal. And this information related to the red-tailed anaconda tells us the stories and madness of that era...
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“….Their shape is very slender. The beautifully shaped head is clearly separated from the body on both sides. The neck is relatively thin, the sides of the body are flat, there is a deep groove in the middle (backbone), and the tail can be rolled up to varying degrees. The head is usually covered with small rather than large scales, and the underside of the tail is covered with broad scales arranged in a row. Teeth are present on the upper, lower, upper jaw, and pterygoids, but not on the premaxilla.

It is the best-known member of the family because its (German) name is Boa constrictor, a member of the Boa family. Its head and neck have obvious changes in thickness, the front is blunted, there are evenly arranged shields only on the edge of the mouth, and the nostrils located between two large scales are arranged laterally, which is considered to be a characteristic of this family.