24-01-2015, 04:48 PM
provide me seminar info on anacond snake with piks
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anaconda in marathi
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provide me seminar info on anacond snake with piks
07-04-2017, 04:04 PM
Anacondas are a group of large snakes of the genus Eunectes. They are large snakes found in tropical South America. Currently four species are recognized. The South American names Anacaucho and Anacaona were suggested in an account of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera but the idea of a South American origin was questioned by Henry Walter Bates who, in his trips through South America, could not find any similar name in use.
The word anaconda is derived from the name of a serpent of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) that John Ray described in Latin in his Synopsis Methodica Animalium (1693) as serpens indicus bubalinus anacandaia zeylonibus, ides bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens. Ray used a catalog of snakes from the Leyden Museum supplied by Dr. Tancred Robinson, but the description of his habit was based on Andreas Cleyer, who in 1684 described a gigantic snake that crushed large animals by rolling and crushing their bones. Henry Yule in his Hobson-Jobson notes that the word became more popular due to a piece of fiction published in 1768 in the Scottish Magazine by a certain R. Edwin. Edwin described a tiger that was crushed and killed by an anaconda when in fact tigers never occurred in Sri Lanka. Yule and Frank Wall observed that the snake was indeed a python and suggested an ancestral Tamil anai-kondra origin that means elephant killer. A Sinhala origin was also suggested by Donald Ferguson who pointed out that the word Henakandaya (ray haena / large trunk and kanda / trunk) was used in Sri Lanka for the small whip snake (Ahaetulla pulverulenta) and somehow misapplied the python Before the myths were created.
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