Living With A 13 ft Snake: The Green Anaconda 🐍 Acuario Michin Guadalajara Aquarium

The #Pacu (often pronounced "pah-koo") is a large, freshwater #fish native to South America and closely related to the piranha. While they look intimidating with their flat, disc-like bodies and notoriously human-like teeth, pacus are predominantly vegetarians that feed on fruits, seeds, and aquatic nuts.

The #greenanaconda (Eunectes murinus) is the world's heaviest #snake, a #nonvenomous constrictor that lives in South American tropical #rainforests, preferring slow-moving water. They are semi-aquatic, olive-green with dark spots, and can grow to be over 21 feet long, with females being significantly larger than males. They hunt large prey like capybaras, deer, and caimans, swallowing them whole, and give birth to live young.
Key Characteristics
Size: The heaviest snake, with large females exceeding 400 pounds and over 21 feet in length.
Appearance: Olive-green with dark dorsal splotches and lighter blotches on the sides; two black stripes run from each eye.
Habitat: Tropical rainforests, especially in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, preferring swamps, marshes, and slow-moving rivers.
Diet: Carnivorous, eating large rodents, birds, turtles, caimans, and even jaguars, which they kill by constriction.
Reproduction: Give birth to live young (viviparous), with large litters of up to 80 snakelets.
Behavior: Semi-aquatic, spending most of their time in water but also on land; solitary except during mating season.
Recent Discovery
In 2024, researchers identified two distinct species: the southern green anaconda (E. murinus) and the northern green #anaconda (E. akayima).
Conservation Status
Listed as "Least Concern" by the IUCN, but threats include habitat loss and hunting.
Acuario Michin Guadalajara is an aquarium in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Address:

C. Mariano Bárcena 990, Zona Centro, 44260 Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico

www.acuariomichin.com/guadalajara/

History
Acuario Michin Guadalajara was built in order to attract tourists to the area. Almost 300 million pesos (over 14 million US dollars) were invested in the aquarium, which is located near Parque Alcalde. Construction began in 2015, and it opened during March of 2017.
In 2018, the aquarium became the first in the country to successfully breed neotropical river otters.

Exhibits
The aquarium is divided into five sections, each named after a pre-Hispanic Mexican civilization: Wixárika, Maya, Mixtec, Konkaak, and Olmeca.[2]
Wixárika Pavilion: Features freshwater species, reptiles, and amphibians, including axolotls.
Maya Pavilion: Features species native to coral reefs, including clownfish.
Mixtec Pavilion: Features some semiaquatic species such as crocodiles and neotropical otters. This pavilion also contains an aviary where visitors can feed budgerigars, opportunities to feed tilapia and carp, and a petting zoo called Achcalli Farm. that was added in 2019. The petting zoo received an expansion in 2021 that added several new species, including flamingos, ducks, turtles, capybaras, and miniature pigs.Visitors can pay extra for a crocodile feeding experience, as well as a giant rabbit interaction.
Konkaak Pavilion: Features colder water species from the Pacific, including jellyfish.
Olmeca Pavilion: Features species from the Gulf of Mexico, including several species of shark, such as bull sharks, nurse sharks, and blacktip reef sharks. Other species in the pavilion include yellowfin surgeonfish and the Northern red snapper. The aquarium allows guests to dive in the shark tank for an additional cost.

Conservation
Acuario Michin Guadalajara participates in several conservation programs, including breeding programs for axolotls and neotropical otters. They work closely with several environmental organizations, including Tapitas Bank, Pelagios Kakunjá, and local indigenous-lead groups.[9] The aquarium has also served as a home for nonreleasable neotropical otters.

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