Embarrassing and just plain sad..

So i was browsing on the natgeo website and came across pictures of a few species of snakes. And low and behold, they incorrectly identified an anaconda. The picture clearly shows a yellow anaconda when they state it to be a green. You can tell from the yellow coloring beneath the heavily spotted body. Green anacondas have less spots and are located more on the sides of the snake opposed to the yellow anaconda which mainly has spots on its back which continue onto the side.

Take a look.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.co...94_600x450.jpg

Does look like a yellow anaconda ;)

At least it's an Anaconda.
I love the sites/articles that show Corns, Balls, Carpets etc. while spieling the horrors of the man-eating Burms :rolleyes:

The general populus won't know the difference. Only a herper would be able to tell. At least they got the species correct!

Jim Smith

Wow...ummm...overreaction?

:cool:

YouTube - Brian Regan 6 - NBC Golf Bird Noises

;)

That is a green anaconda just a young one that is why it looks the way it does with lots of color.

So send them a polite email, instead of trashing them on a site they'll never see or care about.

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Originally Posted by snakemastercanada

That is a green anaconda just a young one that is why it looks the way it does with lots of color.

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pretty sure its a yellow.

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Originally Posted by snakemastercanada

That is a green anaconda just a young one that is why it looks the way it does with lots of color.

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Baby greens look pretty much the same as adults

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2597763_n.jpg

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Wow...ummm...overreaction?

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Overreaction? Where am i freaking out? Im pointing out that a world renowned magazine publisher just incorrectly identified an anaconda. Its just kind of funny and a little stupid when there are so many great things from natgeo and i know there are many talented and intelligent people working for them that could correctly identify the anaconda.

As for the polite email, i sent one to them last night. Hopefully they'll correct it. :D

And i love the reference to the Brian Regan thing. Haha. I love him, and ive seen that before. Perfect connection:banana:

Pretty honest mistake on their part I'd say. But funny still, haha

Not really. This is supposed to be their niche, after all. It's embarrassing for them to mis-identify such a relatively well-known species. I wrote them a note on it, too.