The giant anaconda is one of the most elusive of all creatures. Before his disappearance in 1925 in the Amazon Jungle Colonel Percy H. Fawcett of the British Army reported his encounter with 62 foot anaconda. Serge Bonacase, a Frenchman, told of shooting a sleeping anaconda in Brazil in 1947. The serpent was approximately 75 feet long! The head alone was 2 feet long! A 1949 Brasilian newspaper account tells of a 131 foot anaconda that weighed 5 tons. The giant anaconda is equally at home on land and in the water. While they are constrictors they also have lots of teeth and do bite. They are masters of camouflage and have no natural predators.
The great white shark is a natural killing machine with several rows of razor sharp teeth and cold black eyes. Like the giant anaconda they have no natural predators, other than man. One of the largest great white sharks ever recorded was captured in the 1870's in Australia. It measured 36 feet long.
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