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Even that vintage sports car that's tailing you a little too closely.
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You should know That's right, this is one of my ideas I believe Olivia helped us with this because I am on a mission to get my daughter to watch the movie Anaconda...
The first one? Was there another one?
I think they remade it, yeah.
Oh. I mean, if we're talking about the one with Jon Voight and Ice Cube and Owen Wilson, that's the one I'm talking about.
Don't forget J .Lo, she's the star.
Well, arguably the star is that big slithery snake.
I guess so. So I watched it for the very first time last night.
Oh, did you really?
It's not good. No, I know.
I mean, it's not one of those ones that's like so bad it's good, it's just kinda bad.
Oh, see I think it's kind of a fun, bad movie.
Our friends at the podcast, The Flophouse, the bad movie podcast, it's been around for as long as we have, those guys are great.
Their rating system is good bad movie, bad, bad movie, or movie I kind of liked.
So it's kind of fun.
Did they rate anaconda, do you know?
I don't know that they've ever done this one.
I'll have to ask Dan about that.
Well, I'm given a bad, bad movie.
Okay, I remember it as being good, bad, and for a almost 10 -year -old, she would like it.
Yeah, totally. There's a lot of Jaws homage to it, so I'm sure that's one reason you like it subconsciously.
Yeah, I had a, just before we get going again while we're on movies, a very humbling dad moment, which is a reminder that you can't necessarily make your favorite stuff your kid's favorite stuff.
We tried to watch Army of Darkness, AKA Evil Dead 3, and she made it through about 40 minutes and I thought she was liking it.
And then she went, yeah, can we turn this off?
And I was so heartbroken, I was like, oh, really?
I was like, you don't think it's kind of fun and funny and weird?
And she was like, yeah, but it's just not my thing.
And I was like, okay.
Okay. Man, did you write her out of the will?
Yeah, that's it. Sorry.
Bruce Campbell gets it all now.
Do you know what she didn't like about it?
No. I mean, it wasn't too scary, because she doesn't mind scary stuff.
It was funny. She was laugh—I don't know.
I thought she was into it.
It may have just been the mood, maybe a try again later, because that's what happened before.
Have you ever seen Bubba Ho -Tep with Bruce Campbell?
You bet your sweet baby I have. It's a great movie.
I wonder if she would like that.
Like, maybe she didn't like all the skeletons that he had to fight and stuff like that.
But she would like Bruce Campbell doing his thing.
Yeah, I mean, who doesn't?
I think Bruce Campbell appeals to all ages.
He really does. And that's our Bruce Campbell story.
All right, should we do a good, old -fashioned Stuff You Should Know Animal episode?
Yeah, this is definitely that.
And we're talking anacondas.
For those of you who didn't bother to look at the title, and anacondas are giant massive snakes, the world's heaviest snake by far.
Not the world's longest, but they're not too much shorter than the world's longest, so they're just a massive giant snake.
They're boas, which means they like to constrict you.
They're big enough that if you're a human, they could constrict around you and kill you and eat you if they wanted to.
Luckily, they don't really have much to do with humans.
Apparently, our buns are not substantial enough for their liking, and so they don't want none of us.
And just remember, everyone, you can do side bends or sit -ups, but please don't lose that butt.
Nope. Not if you want an anaconda to eat you.
I just referenced that specific part of that song this past weekend, because that is my favorite part of that song, which is one of my favorite songs.
The side bends and sit ups part?
No, just that whole sort of section starting with workout tapes by Fonda.
Mhm. It's just, I don't know, again, Sir Mix -A -Lot.
We've talked about him a lot lately, I feel like.
Yeah, he's come up a couple times.
Almost as much as Billy Joel.
That's right. They should do a mashup.
So, yeah, Anacondas are giant and scary, but strangely, they're not really anything to be scared of.
According to science and people who don't live around them.
Yeah, they are a member of the Eunectus genus which means good swimmer in Greek, and as we'll see they're great swimmers, and they are part of the even look this up I Think it's like it.
It's spelled all right say it then Bowie day Okay, I saw either.
I think we've been pronouncing DAE wrong.
I think it's D Bowie D Hmm, you're back on that Bao Bo thing again, and I'm pretty sure it's Boide.
Maybe. How about Boide?
But that is known as a true Boa.
They are non -venomous, so they're not going to kill you with venom.
They're just going to give you a big warm hug.
But they're not after you.
Again, like you said, snakes generally don't want to be around people at all.
So it's certainly not like the movie where they are on the attack.
No and I mean, they say so many lies about Anacondas in that movie.
It's real bad. Yeah.
Luckily most of the people who saw that movie probably don't live around Anacondas and don't have a chance to kill them but it was like that level of lies and smears against Anacondas in that movie.
Yeah. One thing that the movie did get right and that I mentioned is that they are great, great swimmers.
They have those eyes and the nose on top of the head so they can barely keep their little of their head out of the water, and still be below water, which is a terrifying thought.
Although mostly when I've seen them, they're kind of swimming on top of the water like you see a lot of snakes do, but they can hold their breath for like 10 minutes, right?
And just like fully dive.
Yeah. Yeah. 10 minutes.
The more you learn about anacondas, the more unsettling they are.
It's good that they don't really want to have much to do with humans, but if they wanted to, we would be in trouble for sure.
Yeah, absolutely. Because they love the water so much, they obviously live in the swamps of the world, slow flowing rivers.
If there are places that are flooded, annually or seasonally, they will be there during those times.
And when it's not, they will probably travel to wetter climes, or maybe just burrow down into the mud.
But they'll also go into the jungle and forest here and there, they really like the water though.
Yeah, all fresh water though.
They're not salt tolerant which was not immediately apparent to me.
I had to look it up.
Oh, you thought there could be an ocean anaconda?
Well, I'll explain why later on.
How about that? I'm gonna save that one for later, my thinking.
Are you gonna say the word brackish at any point?
I may. Okay. So just because they're snakes, they have the Jacobson's organ in their mouth, the roof of their mouth.
It's prominently featured in the movie Anaconda because that thing like bears its fangs at the camera like every 30, 40 seconds.
And there's the Jacobson's organ, the big hole in the back of the roof of its mouth.
and because whenever you see a snake flicker its tongue, really quickly, what it's doing is it's sampling the air and transferring it to the Jacobson's organ which analyzes it and says there's a capybara right over there, let's go eat it.
Yes, they can also, the heat signatures can be recognized so part of finding that animal is their warm blood but they also use it to find a nice cool place to go rest after they've had a big meal, which we'll get to.
That's the yeah, and that's a different one.
That's the pit organ.
This is just nuts. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so so that's the one that so one the Jacobsons senses smells in the air pit organs Like you said sense heat and the pit organs transfer these this these electrical impulses based on thermal signatures to their optic center and it gets integrated with their vision so they can see like a capybara again plain as day in complete darkness, just like Predator.
It's nuts. I mean we think we've never asked them to draw a picture of what that looks like.
It's true. But this is the best we can figure.
But I mean that kind of goes to show just how amazing science can be that we basically walk around thinking like we know what Anaconda's vision looks like even though, yeah, no anacondas ever told us.
Yeah. I mean, that's the same with whether an animal is colorblind.
I'm always like, well, how do you know?
Sure. So if you wanna talk, well, speaking of colors, we'll get to the nitty -gritty of sort of the different kinds of anacondas, but for now, we'll just say the green ones are the ones that are really, really big.
They're bigger than the yellow ones.
They're the heaviest snake in the world, like you said.
Basically, I think you mentioned not the longest, that goes to the reticulated python, but the female anaconda, green anaconda, is larger than the male, anywhere from 15 to 30 feet even, sometimes.
That's at the very high end.
I think there's generally 15 to 20 feet and weigh about 150 to 200 pounds, whereas the males are only about nine to 10 feet and 100 to 120 pounds.
Still a very large snake.
That's a giant snake, still, and yeah, that 30 -foot one, that's supposedly the record although it's not obvious where that came from but supposedly the record anaconda was 30 feet long and 550 pounds right again that's not we don't know who said that originally but there was we know for a fact a snake and a green anaconda female that was about 440 pounds and 20 feet long so they do get I mean they are so big and you look up like go look up pictures and videos of green anacondas and you'll be like, wow, that's a big snake, and then see if you can find one next to like a human or something for scale
and you will just be blown away by how giant these things are.
Yeah, like a banana.
Also be wary because there are a lot of fake pictures and videos of giant anacondas.
Yes. And it's just harder to tell these days.
I saw some video from like helicopters above a river where it's like, there's no way this thing is that big because they were 60 feet long and as big around as a basketball.
And they look really good.
Yeah, yeah, and they're hard to tell.
Like you said, I saw one and it was curling around this lion and I was like, wait a minute, these things are only in South America and lions are not in South America.
That was the only way I, like I had to stop and think about it because it looked so realistic.
Yeah. It's like, can you just be amazed by the national world as it is?
Like does everything have to be pushed to the extreme for you to get your jollies?
I'm with you buddy, I had the same thought.
So I mentioned the yellows are smaller, they're nine to 10 pounds for the females which are larger than the males because they're only about six feet long which is, again, still a very big snake and they can top 100 pounds, a yellow one can.
Like all snakes, they have intermediate growth which means they're always growing.
It slows down in adulthood, but the snakes keep growing forever Yeah, and there was one other dimension that we left out and that is those green Anacondas can get to about 12 inches or a third of a meter in diameter That is it.
That's an old thickie is what they call that And how long do you live Josh for a while actually in the in the wild up to 20 years on average And then because the wild is so much more dangerous than a cushy zoo, in captivity they can live up to 30 years.
They're just not as happy as the ones in the wild.
The ones in the wild are like, live fast, die young, leave a beautiful corpse.
The ones in captivity are like, I'm gonna get soft but I'll live to an old age.
That's right, just throw me a capybara in here so I can have some lunch. Right, they're like capybara again?
Can I get a tapir? They are apex predators so nothing is gonna of come after the anaconda, it's not gonna happen.
They feed on fish, they feed on reptiles, we mention mammals.
They'll eat a deer, they'll eat a caiman, although I did see a caiman stand off an anaconda because I think it was one of the smaller anacondas that got out of there.
The caimans are like the mini crocodiles, right?
Yeah but they're still got some size to them.
Sure, sure, but I just wanna make sure to kill the right animal.
Totally, and they kill things like you would think.
They're constrictors, so they grab it, they grab it around the neck, they coil that body and they squeeze it, and I always heard that like, oh, they'll crush your internal organs and break your rib cage.
They're really not doing that.
And this is kind of a cool little fact, what they're doing is they're stopping the blood flow and you end up having heart failure because, or stroke because you have no blood reaching your brain or your heart, and you lose consciousness.
They can bite if you're smaller, but they're generally going to constrict you to death.
Yeah, and the reason that they don't break your bones is because they don't want bones sticking out of your body on the way down their gullet as they're digesting you.
So they use a little bit of finesse, I think.
Yeah, because they swallow you whole, you know.
That's the idea. That's why when you see constrictors with those big bulges that is like a pig or something.
It's probably Jon Voight.
I wish it was. But, we should say that they don't, you know because they're eating such big things they don't have to eat very much. They can go months between eating meals and it can take weeks and weeks for them to digest so they'll just sneak away to a nice, cool place and digest on the down low for a little while.
And there was one report of a captive anaconda that lived for two years without eating.
Right. and they normally keep to themselves.
they have their own hunting territories but most of the time they're like I just leave me alone I'm just over here doing my thing.
except they come together from April to May during breeding season and they're polyandrous which means that a single female will mate with multiple males as opposed to polygamous, which means a single male will mate with multiple females.
and they will mate in what's called the breeding ball and if you want to be unsettled to your core, look up green anaconda breeding ball.
Yeah, breeding ball is the stuff of nightmares.
For sure, that's like as many as 13 snakes sometimes just having a big ole snake party with each other.
That's not how it always goes down though.
A lot of times the females will spend an entire mating season with just one dude.
But, that dude may be lunch after they're impregnated because the female may just eat that male because they've just gotten pregnant and they need to bed down for seven months without eating again.
So, uh, T .S. for you pal.
Yeah, that's something in the animal kingdom called sexual cannibalism.
Yeah. Sexual cannibals is maybe the greatest band name we've run across so far.
Yeah, they opened for the fine young cannibals.
Yeah, exactly. Um, and I just, one other thing about that, I read some species of males will sacrifice themselves to be cannibalized after mating.
And there was a study of fisher spiders, or dark fisher spiders, something like that, where they found that after the female eats the male, she has more success, like healthier offspring and more offspring, when she eats the male than if she immediately ate an alternative prey like a cricket or something like that.
So there's something involved in that exchange that helps reproduction and natural selection and go full steam ahead I guess in whatever species does that.
Wow, that's super interesting.
I thought so too. They mate, the green ones that is mate every other year because it's a lot I think we could admit that big sex ball that they form sometimes and— For weeks.
Yeah, and just you know the seven month pregnancy and they're not eating it's just a lot.
So they do this every other year.
Greens have about 30 babies at a time.
Yellow ones have about 40 But there is at least one verified case of a green anaconda having 82 baby anaconda snakes Yeah, that's I mean that poor snake.
She's like my aching back They have live births to their viviparous rather than oviparous.
They don't lay eggs like some kinds of snakes and Regardless, however, the baby comes out.
They don't do any parenting They're just done.
They have their babies and they just slither off and the babies are on their own immediately they just start swimming around and eating whatever is in in the area and then after three or four years they get into their own breeding ball situations and the circle of life just keeps continuing on.
Yeah and those babies are a couple of feet long and that feels like a pretty good place to break, yeah?
I don't know why I said yea as opposed to nay we'll be right back.
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So, Chuck, there are different species of Anacondas and one of the things that's extremely interesting about the taxonomy of Anacondas is that very recently they've shaken things up.
I mean if you're a herpetologist, this is one of the most exciting things in your field to come along in a really long time, I'm guessing.
Yeah, I bet you're right.
So originally, up until very recently, scientists divided anacondas into four species.
There was the green anaconda, eunectes marinus, which we talked about basically this whole time.
Yellow anaconda, eunectes notaeus.
The benny, it's not even called an anaconda, that's how odd it is.
That's Eunectes beniensis, and then the dark -spotted anaconda, which is Eunectes daschausenziel.
Daschauenziel. Did I say that right, Mr. German Pronunciation Guy?
I think that is an I at the end and not an L.
Oh, D -Dachauen see -e -e -e -e.
I think that is exactly right.
That's definitely a German word. So those four species are the ones that they've considered anacondas since time immemorial.
but within the last year or so, they're like, this is all wrong, we need to reconfigure stuff into like a new breeding ball of species of anaconda.
Yeah, there was a paper, as Emily likes to say, probably a white paper from last year, where an international team of scientists got together.
They had probably the leading anaconda expert in the world, Jesus Rivas of New Mexico Highlands University, They got together and said, guys, I think we got to dig in a little deeper.
We're being a little lazy.
And we got to rename these, reclassify these snakes.
We're going to split these green anacondas into two species and we're going to combine the other three into one and Will Smith somehow has something to do with this.
Yeah. Interestingly.
So they've studied anacondas for decades and decades and try to figure out if the taxonomy is correct because I mean when Linnaeus started taxonomy, it was all based on like this thing looks like this thing and they've gotten better at genetic analysis we've been like well this cuz it looks like it actually they're not very related at all that's been the case with anacondas but a big chunk of the work that's been done the research that's been done that led to this was done through a national geographic show poll to poll with Will Smith yeah there was apparently at least one episode where one of the leaders
of the way Orani people his name was Penti by Hua.
He said, hey, Will Smith, why don't you guys come to Ecuador, and we'll hang out in the Amazon, and we'll lead you around and show you anacondas and you guys can capture them and test them and release them back.
And that's exactly what happened.
And from that, they took all sorts of blood samples and tissue samples and did genetic analysis, and they're like, we got this way wrong.
Yeah, and Will Smith said, Why did the five fingers say to the face?
I know man. that's that is gonna be tough for him to ever live down It's because it's one of the weirdest public things.
It's ever happened televised things that's ever happened It's weird yeah, it's still mind -boggling to think about and I remember seeing it live just being like what did I just see yeah No same here.
I'm sure I saw it live and not a replay But it was it but also the violence of it I think is what it's gonna make it so hard to live down.
It was just an ugly ugly thing It really was.
It's crazy. Oh man, so strange.
So they did some research. And again, you said that once we get into the genetics just because something looks like something doesn't mean much. So they did that.
They got into the genetics of these snakes and they found that the two green anaconda types because they reclassified, were split up.
They diverged because of probably plate tectonic activity about 10 million years ago when plates smashed together and created a big ridge or a mountain range and all of a sudden, it's like the Berlin Wall and they were split up and they look a lot alike if you look like them like you were saying but their genomes differ by about five and a half percent which is a lot genetically.
Yeah humans and chimps are separated by about 2 % and these are identical looking snakes so they're definitely different species and it just goes to show you like how species put into very similar habitats a long time ago that those small changes that spread out and out and out over millions of years can have huge sweeping effects that their genomes could be divergent by 5 % just over that time, which is the basis of chaos theory.
Oh, really? Yeah, little tiny changes in inputs early on over a long enough span of time and create completely different things over long spans of time.
You should say that all as Jeff Goldblum.
I can't, I wish I could do a Jeff Goldblum.
Yeah, me too. That would be amazing.
I saw him once in person outside of the, what's the place we always stayed for Sketch Fest?
I saw him outside the hotel too.
He was there at the same time, and I was at one point even in a little circular group with friends I knew that knew him, and I just stayed quiet and tried to just be among Jeff Goldbloom?
I feel like we talked about this at the San Francisco show.
I think so and my takeaway just from being near him is that boy he was a charming, lovely guy that it seemed like he wanted every interaction with the person to leave thinking like what a great dude that guy is.
And he smells like a million dollars.
A million bucks. So yeah I wish I could do a Jeff Goldblum too I guess is what I'm trying to say.
So we should mention the range quickly before we probably break again the greens obviously, almost all of Brazil and other parts of South America east of the Andes up the northern Venezuela coast. You can find them as far south as Paraguay and interestingly also maybe unlucky for them on the Caribbean island of Trinidad.
Yes, okay. Now here's where the salt tolerance thing comes up.
I could not figure out, if you look at a Trinidad is there's a part of Venezuela that's no more than ten miles away from Trinidad and Tobago the islands right off of Venezuela so these things can swim and hold their breath for 10 minutes I was like how did they get to Trinidad did they swim I still have no idea how they got to Trinidad it had to have been you know at a point in time when Trinidad was still fused to maybe to South America or like maybe the sea levels were lower so there was a land bridge.
I don't know but that's how I found out that they're not salt tolerant.
They're only freshwater snakes because no, they couldn't have swam to Trinidad.
That's the answer to that.
Even if they vaseline dup and or the the goggles in the skullcap?
Mm -hmm and the bike shorts?
Yeah oh yeah they were bike shorts these days.
What was it that Pee Wee Herman thing in Pee Wee's big adventure?
He said, oh yeah, he's talking about blowing your mind.
He's like, have you ever seen a snake wear a vest?
You remember that part?
That's Yumi's favorite part in the entire film.
I don't remember that part.
That's funny. I thought I knew that movie inside and out.
That's very funny. I've not seen that documentary yet on Pee Wee Herman.
I heard it's really, really good though.
Yeah, we just watched it.
It is very good. There's also one we're watching called Chimp Crazy by the guy who did Tiger King.
No, no thanks. It's not as hard to watch as you would think.
It's more human interest stuff, But yeah, I mean, there's still, it's weird because you empathize with both sides.
It's one of those documentaries.
I'm one of the few people that didn't have any interest or watch Tiger, was it?
Tiger what? Tiger King, you kind of missed out, man, that was something.
Yeah, I don't feel like it.
Okay, well then yeah, you might not like Chimp Crazy then, if you didn't wanna watch Tiger King.
All right, shall we take that break?
Yes. All right, we'll be back and talk about human interactions with Anacondas right after this.
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I don't know if I'd go partying with one, but we said they may eat every couple of months, so if you know for a fact that anaconda has eaten something, those are probably the videos you're seeing on the internet when there's people doing documentary work on anacondas.
They probably know that that thing is eaten.
Yeah, interestingly there was a study that found that humans who live around anacondas see a full anaconda as far less threatening than one that doesn't have a big potbelly.
Yeah I would say so.
It makes sense. There was a book that I don't even know if we should mention but a book from the 50s called Giant Snake Hunt by a guy named Ralph Blomberg who claimed two definite cases of people being killed by snakes but I think that book is probably not accurate is my guess.
There is a video that I watched from Terasant, Brazil that has a guy, I'm sure you watched this too, an anaconda standing, or the guy was standing rather in like chest -deep water in a river in Brazil and anaconda was wrapped around him and his buddies on the boat were trying to get it off and he bit this snake near its head and the snake released it and they got this guy out of there.
It was weird, if you listen closely, his bite made the same sound that Fred Flintstone makes when he bites into something, that chomp sound.
I was really surprised.
It was very surprising.
So, yeah, that's really, really rare that that happens, and the guy was able to escape unharmed.
The point is, is if an anaconda wanted to take you on, like you would be in big trouble.
Yeah, sure. It turns out that there are some people who want an anaconda to take them on. There's a guy named Paul Rizzoli, Who, for all intents and purposes is Chainsaw from summer school.
Did you look this up and see him?
Uh, I did. And I remember when this happened.
Okay, so Discovery Channel had a two hour special called Eaten Alive Where Paul Rizzoli was out looking for a giant anaconda to eat him.
And it was just pulse pounding from the beginning to the last moment from what I understand.
Yeah, you don't remember this?
No. Oh boy, I do. It was a media disaster.
And I would like to think a low point for Discovery Channel.
But they made a carbon fiber suit that he wore.
And he drenched himself in pig's blood.
As you do. And what he claimed was like, oh, I want to bring awareness to the loss of habitats for these snakes.
But close to 40 ,000 people signed a petition beforehand calling it animal abuse, saying you can't do a show like this.
The show itself was a disaster, a Geraldo digging for, who was it, Jimmy Hoffa, or was it ...
I don't know about Hoffa.
I know that he found Al Capone's vault.
Al Capone, that was it.
It had nothing basically in it.
And that was the deal here, where almost all of the show was just prep.
In the last 15 minutes, this snake, this poor snake being exploited, tries to bite him on the head and starts constricting him, and he's like, oh, oh, my arm.
and he taps out. And that was it.
Right, so I think the rule of thumb here Chuck is if you are in another animal's habitat, messing with it and there's a TV camera on you, you are in the wrong.
There is no exception to that.
Because you are going into their house and messing with them for your own benefit.
And that's just wrong.
It's wrong and don't do it.
Agreed. Yeah, that's all I have to say about that.
I think we should mention a couple of these tweets though cause they're pretty funny.
Totally. there was one person who said that they called it eatin' alive because getting squeezed really hard didn't sound as enticing.
That was a good one.
Another one, someone said, calling it hashtag eatin' a lime is like having a show on the Food Network about cooking a turkey, and all they do after two hours is pre -heat the oven.
Good stuff. Roasted.
I don't remember it at all.
I don't remember it being a disaster, but I could see that.
Yeah. As far as human interaction, humans are probably a bigger threat, not probably, humans are a bigger threat to anacondas than they are to them.
A lot of times, it will be preemptively killed in a small community because of fear of small kids, maybe a little bit more of a threat, or a small elderly person, perhaps, or your livestock.
A lot of times, they'll describe this as retaliatory killing because they ate my prize deer, so I'm gonna kill it, but they did an actual study in Brazil in 2015, and they found it's probably more of a preemptive fear to keep them from doing something like that.
Right, and based on your Human Development Index score, which is a rating of education level and standard of living and income for an area, the lower that score, the more likely you are to kill an anaconda.
I feel like that's a little bit slanted, because I feel like people with high Human Development Index scores probably don't live with anacondas in their yard, so I think that's a little bit skewed but I get the gist that, you know, the more you're educated about, say, animals, the more, the less likely you are to hurt them.
At the same time, the more educated you are, probably the more removed you are from animals.
So it's hard to fault people who literally live among anacondas or other things that they perceive as a threat, killing them even though to us and the developed world, or the global north, it seems just abhorrent, we don't have to deal with that.
So there's a certain amount of judgment that you have to take perspective on.
Either way I wish that no one would kill an anaconda, especially if they leave humans alone.
But I can't also put myself in the shoes of the people who live among them, I guess is what I'm saying.
Yeah. Well said. I'm glad you said that, because I'm out of breath.
No, that's great. Yeah, obviously a loss of habitat is a problem for everything in South America.
A draining of wetlands for agricultural use and just clear cutting of rain forest and things like that.
Despite all this, they're in pretty good shape.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources classified or they're currently classified as of least concern.
That was surprising.
Yeah, I mean they're doing pretty good.
Um, you might wonder about like, well what about these things like if people bring them over and all of a sudden they're in the swamps of Florida.
There are some anacondas in Florida but it's generally not a problem.
The Burmese python is you know very much on record as being a much much bigger problem.
But regardless, Florida has a complete ban on anacondas and they are prohibited as pets.
so they said, don't even think about it, we're Florida, we'll find you.
We'll hunt you down and find you if you release an anaconda here.
One of the reasons why they're not a big problem as an invasive species is because they're really hard to keep as pets.
Like you essentially need like a zoo exhibit size place, there's a word in there somewhere that I'm missing, to keep an anaconda at your home, most people can't do that, So there's not a lot of pet anacondas anywhere that could be released in the first place.
Yeah, so we're going to finish up with a little bit on some of the more famous anacondas.
First of which has got to be Anna Julia.
This is a 20 -footer, a 440 -pound female obviously, green, and probably the most famous anaconda that lived in the Formosa River near Bonito, Brazil, because there's a lot of ecotourism there, and Anna Julia was just present a lot.
And the water there in the river around Benito is pretty clear as far as that kind of water goes.
And Anna Julia was not aggressive.
So she was like, hey, if you wanna make a documentary about me, I'm right here, let's do it.
Come on in the water's fine.
Yeah or maybe don't come up in the water.
So there's yeah, well, there's actually from that study that poll, the poll national geographic thing that contributed a huge study that changed the species arrangement, the taxonomy.
One of the biologists involved in that, there's a video of him swimming alongside Ana Julia.
And she's totally underwater, just swimming along.
And does not seem at all bothered by his presence.
I mean, he's not trying to ride her or anything like that.
He's not putting a vest on her.
Was he the one wearing the frickin' dress shirt?
I think so, yeah. He was not dressed for snorkeling or swimming.
It was very weird. And I immediately went to the comments.
I'm like surely I'm not the only one that is noticing this?
and of course everyone is like well i see the guy dressed you know formal for the occasion and everyone's talking about this guy wearing it i mean it may be one of those weird uh sort of moisture wicking out all -weather outdoor shirts that just is a button -up but why are you swimming in a button -up?
I get the impression that he's Dutch Oh that explains it.
So um what's sad about it though is that Ana Julia was found dead Just a few weeks after this that research that she was a huge part of like because she was so docile.
They were able to Closely study and observe her and she contributed greatly to our understanding of Anacondas And she died like five weeks after that research was published that big 2024 paper of course, everybody's like somebody like who shot Anna Julia it was like a murder mystery that Netflix quickly made a 10 -part series about and and it turns out that she died of natural causes.
Yeah, which is sad, but good to know that she was not killed.
Yeah, definitely. If you live in St. Louis, you're probably screaming at us right now, you gotta mention JLo, guys, you gotta mention JLo.
JLo was the 18 foot, 210 pound anaconda that lived for about a dozen years at the St. Louis zoo and you know, feel what you want about zoos, but this anaconda was saved actually, escaped being sold for meat and skin at a Gaianna market.
And an animal exporter stepped in, bought the snake and brought to J -Lo to the zoo in 2010 and was apparently the star of the show at their developing herpetarium.
Yeah, and the animal exporter who brought her very famously put her in what looked like a present box with like a bow on it and everything.
It was like, here you go guys, and let them open it and all of a sudden J.
Lo sprung out and coiled herself in a very happy, playful way around the zookeeper.
Yeah, like a genuine hug.
Yeah, exactly, and slither it off.
And because Anacondas sound just like this anaconda in the movie Anaconda, she went, eh, eh, eh, eh, as she slithered off.
Because that's the sound that snakes make.
Eh, eh, eh, eh. That sounds sort of like the sound the mummy makes.
did you ever see that special?
They built a, they were just talking about this on the 3dom Podcast with Scott Occarman, Lorne Lapkitz, and Paula Tompkins, where there was another one of the specials, like let's recreate this thing that we have no idea what it sounded like, and they tried to recreate what a mummy sounded like by building this I think a 3D mummy voice box and passing air through it, and it was just sort of like, heeey.
A mummy, a dead human being that's been embalmed.
Yeah! That's bizarre.
I mean I'm sure they sounded like a human pre -mummy and then they didn't sound like anything because they were dead post -mummification.
That's just odd! I know.
My mind just got blown.
I'm with you. It was a very strange thing.
Okay. I don't know why they did it.
I don't know much about it other than hearing it on Freedom and looking it up because I had to hear the sound.
Like, we may edit that gap out, but there is a substantial pause where we were both just stunned thinking about this for a second.
No, I think we should leave it in there, because that was real life.
Who else, Chuck? We gotta mention Oliver from the San Francisco Zoo.
You know, as funny as I didn't, I was so caught up in the sound that that mummy made, I didn't even think about like, what does that even mean?
Yeah, what are you doing?
Like, who thought of that idea?
Oh, I don't know, it was probably Discovery Channel.
So, yeah, man, this is bizarre.
There's Oliver from San Francisco Zoo.
He may have been the oldest anaconda to live in captivity.
He was 40, they think.
And then the oldest living snake in captivity is Annie, who is in the Monte Cassino bird gardens in Johannesburg, South Africa.
And in May 14th, 2021, Guinness said that she was 37 years and 317 days old.
And since Livia said that she couldn't find any mention of her death and that she thinks that she's still there, that she's coming up on her 42nd birthday.
Wow. So on May 62nd she'll be 42 years old.
You know what they don't have in that bird garden?
Birds? Yep. That was great, and Chuck, we can't go any further.
All right, I'm done.
Okay, well Chuck's done because he just dropped the mic.
And since he did that, it's time for listener mail I'm gonna call this This is a fun follow -up.
I always love it when we do something on someone and Like a family member writes him.
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I was delighted you mentioned Charles Cretor's, my great, great, great grandfather.
Here's some more information about him and how he came to invent the popcorn machine.
He founded C. Cretor's and Company in Chicago in 1885, initially building peanut roasters, patented the process of popping popcorn and oil, or seasoning, as he called it, to prevent popcorn from burning.
In 1893 he patented the first popcorn popper, which used a steam engine to power it, and he debuted it at the 1893 Columbian Exposition.
At first, his invention wasn't getting much attention until he started handing out free bags of popcorn.
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And today, See Creators and Companies, a fifth -generation family business.
My grandfather, Charles D.
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Hello. I love that.
That is from Garrett, I guess, U -del.
Thanks a lot, Garrett.
That is a fantastic email.
We do love it when we talk about somebody and a family member writes in, especially when they're not upset about us.
Yeah. And especially when they did something great, like inventing the popcorn machine.
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