Giant Anaconda Got Stuck In The Jungle After Swallowing Its Prey Whole

This is the moment a cop on a boat uses a spade to prod and free a giant anaconda from some riverside branches after it got trapped in them due to the huge animal it had just ingested. Footage shows how an officer from Brazil’s Environmental Military Police (PMA) uses the spade to free the five-metre- (-) anaconda from the branches along the Iguatemi River. The incident took place on a stretch of the river in the municipality of Mundo Novo in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul on the afternoon of Monday, 2nd November. It is not clear what animal the anaconda had eaten, but in a similar case from September, an anaconda was found to have ingested a whole capybara, the largest living rodent. In August, a tour guide in Brazil filmed another anaconda shedding its scales. Experts recommend that humans keep their distance from anacondas, particularly after they have just eaten, as the presence of humans can stress the large snakes. In order to facilitate their escape, they end up regurgitating