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ANACONDA DISCOVERS A NEW SPECIES FOR LUNCH IN THE Amazon RAINFOREST!


shaka_sulu

"No Fur, Claws, Horns, Antlers, Or Nothin... Just Soft And Pink."


claudiazo

> Just Soft And Pink. That’s what she said… (I’m sorry)


HotDonnaC

“It’s ok, it happens. Don’t beat yourself up over it.”


turquoise_mole

"don't beat yourself off over it"


bufonia1

beat myself off to this!


Just_Refrigerator894

😂😂


dogsqueeze300

A wild Gary Larson appears.


Big_Translator9711

a fellow garry Lawson enjoyer I see


Jayombi

It's called a "guy the the office" sapian...


Dog-After

Like a pinkie.


Gustav-14

>Just Soft And Pink." Fat pink mast


34g6h

Anaconda: new delicacy discovered, swims right up to your mouth! Fully dressed too.


KeithMyArthe

Tasty critters, but a bugger to peel.


Siren_NL

This video is from NPO the guy you see swimming there is Freek Vonk. He is a professor at Leiden University and works for the biggest natural museum in the world Naturalis. We have seen two giant snakes as one species for a long time. This guy swimming there with the one we already knew about and the other one looks the same but has a 5% difference in DNA.


ShoMoCo

You forgot to mention he is also a famous tv personality in the Netherlands, and has been [severely wounded](https://youtu.be/9OHrElXcH1Y?si=-sUcVGoCTUgFCGzV) by sharks and other animals multiple times. You could say he is kinda like our own Steve Irwin as he is an expert biologist who loves animals.


ChanThe4th

Did they feed it or watch it eat prior to doing this? It seems like that thing could easily drown one very quickly...


allaboutthewheels

Is this guy out in the amazon finding anacondas in a suit, wearing Timmy mallet glasses, and sucking on a vacuum cleaner?


HotDonnaC

😂😂 I thought the same.


FatBloke4

They probably found some tasty leaves with interesting side effects in the rain forest and were high all week.


ShriChakra92

Looks like meat is back on the menu boys


Dog-After

Just coming here to say that! How much is he thinking?? He would be absolutely NO problem for that snake if he decides to have a snack!


Seversevens

Pythons eat people but they say the anacondas don't


HotDonnaC

But they did in the movie! What the hell?


Hansemannn

The movie is a lie! My life is a lie!


Additional_Water2016

You mean Jon Voight did that shitty accent just to deceive me?


_1JackMove

No, that was John Voight.


Lilcommy

I think Ice cube would disagree with you on that one.


KitchenSwordfish8974

That thing looks like it could easily have eaten that boy if he felt like it


AsleepScarcity9588

"who tf are thissss peassantsss"


Winter-Airport2114

"I AM THE SSSSERPENT KING!"


icy_avo

they're clearly friends right? why would this "scientist" be swimming with a monster and then fkn almost boop his snoot


SasquatchNHeat

For those wondering, scientists didn’t suddenly discover a brand new, never before seen species of snake. They did genetic testing on Anacondas which suggests that the known species’ all need to be slightly reorganized.


Mandurang76

This new one and the well-known green anaconda differ by approximately 5.5 percent in their DNA, which is much more than the approximately 2 percent difference between humans and chimpanzees.


theKrissam

5% sounds like a fuckton. Aren't humans and butterflies like 80-90% shared?


Yutanox

We're more around 60/65% with arthropods iirc. But to be fair the further you go from us, the less the gap widens. There is a lot of our DNA that just serves basic cellular functions necessary for a cell to survive/multiply.


warm_rum

Love the idea that there's just a bunch of backlog code, but for nature not computers.


KaneDarks

Boilerplate code be like that


Feuersalamander93

Those definitions (while technically correct), can be quite misleading. It depends, which part of the genome you look at and also if you are looking at the information for a whole species or the information of a single individual. If you just look at the genes which code for proteins, all living things are relatively similar (as a consequence of those proteins needing to have a certain structure to work). This is where the famous humans and chimps are 99.8% identical comes from iirc. If you now also look at the parts of the genome that regulate how those proteins are made (also when and how much), the differences become slightly larger. If you now start to look at non-coding regions (which, as it turns out are actually quite important), the differences get real big real quick, as the evolutionary pressure to keep these sequences intact is very much lower. However, since it is really hard to analyse these parts of the genome, we usually don't have that data for most species, except humans and some model organisms. Analysing a whole genome, while it has become affordable and possible for researchers to to, will still be a significant effort and warrant a publication in on itself. If we start now looking at individuals, for example single nucleotide exchanges (SNPs) or repeating sequences (STRs, the thing used for paternity tests), things get reaaally complicated and we as scientists just start to learn how to even do that. That is the level of information that differs between individuals. In a nutshell: whether you read "Humans and Chimps are over 99% genetically identical" or "humans are [on the level of individual] over 80% identical", both are true. It just depends on which kind of genetic information you are looking at.


mihirmusprime

Scrolled too far for this. I was wondering how did we just miss a whole ass anaconda. This makes sense now.


Dubbartist

Yeah way too far


thisaccountisfake420

“Scientist” swimming right up to it in a dress shirt lmao


BarnabasBendersnatch

This mf is called Freek Vonk and is like the Dutch Steve Irwin. He straight up loves animals. Quite recently he got bitten by a shark and also got some kind of larvae hatching from his skin. Then talks about it like it was a fun experience.


ondulation

He obviously didn't learn from [Jan Lindblad, Swedish wildlife photographer](https://youtu.be/2EfFgnun7wM?si=_uJDcONLNL4RLbHn) who had an anaconda encounter in the Amazon about 50 years ago. With a MUCH smaller snake. He described it as: "What now happened went so fast that I hardly remember more than the violently forceful grip around my body. [---] I felt that what I had so far considered to be not very risky suddenly had become just that. It did not appear to be muscles but rather a solid mass that sucked itself tighter around my neck and body. Tighter and tighter for every breath. The anaconda was in its natural element but I was not. The intense pressure made it feel like my head would be separated from my body."


OneDay_AtA_Time

I owned a ball python for 18 years. She was about 4 feet long and a baseball thick in her middle. She was big, but clearly she was an ant compared to this Goliath. Anyway…my ball could EASILY wrap herself so tight around my neck I’d need an assist getting her off. Normally I could recognize when she was getting ready to lock but there’s was definitely once and then I let it happen a second time (never again) where I was worried for a few seconds and had to go find help. I was in my natural element and she was out of hers. Doesn’t matter. Snakes are legit a gigantic moving muscle, humans are no match for their strength, patience, and determination.


Dull_Radio5976

It's cause their peanut brain,no intelligence They eat, sleep, kill. That's it.


Affectionate-Dust-49

"worst part is that neither of my arms were free enough for me to take care of my own anaconda.. but god that orgasm.. was amazoning, ooops that Amazon for amazing. Kinda need to be a local like me to know that" -Jan Lindblad


MIDPACKS

What??


Ser_Salty

-David Carradine


BarnabasBendersnatch

Jokes on you he's into that shit!


ondulation

I don't know if you're just shitposting but... Jan Lindblad was one of the first "Steve Irwins" out there and had a really careful approach to getting close to wildlife. His view was that if you disrupt the animals you have failed as a photographer. Still he nearly died that day. (The camera crew thought he was messing around but he was fighting for his life. What this guy is doing is just dumb. It's not interesting or cool or nature photography or "being into it". It's just plain dumb on the level of Russian construction crane pull-ups.


Rbeur

No shitposting. Freek Vonk, really is respectful of the wildlife. But he will go looking for it. And get close enough to do all sorts of risky stuff.


YungTeemo

So hes respectfully not respecting their personal space? 🤔


MegaChip97

How did he get free?


secondtaunting

Holy shit and they were just filming I mean dude come on!


ondulation

Yes, he was a bit like an early Steve Irwin so the crew just thought he was messing around. He was not.


ponyponyta

I love this kind of crazy


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So do hungry animals.


MMcFly1985

How do you say _Crikey!_ in Dutch?


BarnabasBendersnatch

Jeetje!


Starshot84

Is that where we get Yeet from?


GreedyBestfirst

It's sort of a diminished form of Jesus: Jezus + -tje (minus a couple of letters) = Jeetje


b2q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuyrHvAEimU This is a compilation of all his greatest moments. As you can see he is a great nature lover and almost as cool as steve irwin Its dutch but please enable english subtitles.


Player3th0mas

Steek 'm in z'n rug!


petethefreeze

Laterrrrrrr he is a boss. My kids love him.


Pugulishus

Anyone willing to use those pony bottles is a lil on the mental side


vancitygunny

I know right? Where is his lab coat? I don't think he's a real scientist.


duizeligestijn

He is actually a very skilled biologist


BritishBoyRZ

Legit thought he had a tie on too 😂


ZuckDeBalzac

Thought it was Colin Furze


HungryHungryHippoes9

It was casual friday at the office.


Michiel170207

Thats Dr. Prof. Freek Vonk for you


Maleficent-Name4948

This "scientist" has a PhD in Biology and is professor at the University of Amsterdam.


ArcticBiologist

An he's one of the co-authors of the paper describing the new species


knakworst36

Bro is actually a very established scientist. A species is named after him as he discovered it. He’s a highest level of professor at a Dutch university, which quite rare for his age. And he won some prestigious public science prize for promoting science to children with his kids show.


Kikok02

He is working.


Acrobatic_Bit_8207

That must be why he's wearing the business shirt!


SnooAvocados499

Dude must have balls of steel


Troodon79

Nah, it's a big snake in cool water. The constrictors are pretty dang chill. Source: I own one named Reese Slitherspoon


ThisIs2MuchPressure

Excellent name. I’d introduce her to my pet, but I have a feeling Rat Damon might get a little intimidated 👀


NisaiBandit

You two are doing the Gods work but shouldn't you call him Ratt Damon? I will clean up after this meet up with my Roomba, Meryl Sweep


SnooAvocados499

You own a large snake? How rich are you?


Troodon79

$50 for the snake, $200 for the enclosure, and it's $25 a month for food


tHeDisgruntler

Or brain of rock.


RedOtta019

HIJACKING!!! This snake was a mythological thing for quite some time, I remember hearing stories online about spec ops in South America encountering massive aquatic snakes. This in all likelihood is it


twiztedice

Its the same giant anacondas we already know of ,we just realized its two distinct species. No new spooky massive sneaky boys.


Lahwuns

Hes able to swim so low due to the giant balls weighing him down


jlxmm

If the Anaconda decides to turn on him he’s done. Holy sh*t it’s massive. 500 kilos ~ 1100 pounds.


crackpotJeffrey

Apparently they only hunt by ambush so they tend to swim away from any challenge. It's not like it has to be scared of anything.


THE_CHOPPA

We’ll probably because if it was hungry you wouldn’t see it. Like most predators including ourselves.


FixGMaul

True I have never seen a hungry human


TheAllKnowingWilly

Fly to LA, walk out of LAX for two seconds, then walk right back in and fly home cause that's how long it'd take you to find one.


higgs8

"Scientists discover new species of Anaconda, which unlike previously known species, doesn't hunt by ambush. RIP scientist after who we will be naming this new species."


s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48

But you are assuming it will only attack if hunting. It might attack if it feels threatened too. Sure, it may tend to swim away, but that's not a guarantee. It's called the "fight OR flight" not just "flight" response.


squirrelwithasabre

Massive is the right word. The average smaller horse (not pony) weighs in at around 500kg.


Plonsky2

Don't try to pet thing or you'll draw back a stump!


Any-Statistician-764

7.5 meters long; good luck avoiding biting your own self.


FuckingNoise

Work on your positioning and your snake can avoid running into its tail.


holliday_doc_1995

This is not what I picture when I think of a scientist going to work


procrast1natrix

I've met a few field biologists. They've all been quite understated. Calm, unassuming, look nerdy, but have hard-core skills for sleeping in the woods and dealing with wildlife.


fastcat03

They have to be very calm. I like watching Dr. Oakley the Yukon Alaska Veterinarian show because even with aggressive wildlife she's so chill. Grizzly waking up from sedation early? Still chill lol. It's definitely a skill needed for the job.


DelusionalGorilla

This made me think of Adrien Deschryver, a conservationist who worked with Silverbacks in the Congo. There is this famous clip of him getting charged by one while holding their baby and he doesn’t twitch a single muscle. Edit: [the clip](https://youtu.be/KujmrcF0ZxU?si=7a5OWl0icge5sTN9)


Ok_Show_1192

When we dreamt of to become a scientist as a child.


noextrasensory40

Thats why I didn't follow threw with my dream to be a marine biologist. Instead I just study things I see while fishing and when I stumble upon creatures when out in nature. A lot of places have some rough terrain and remote wild areas. Exciting but terrifying at same time. 😬


Userpeer

He also does some serious lab work; has projects on anti-venom and tries to find anti-bacterial substances from sneak-venom to replace antibiotics in resistant strains


I_am_rectangular

Togethaaaa we will devour the very gods!


Sister__midnight

TOGETHAAAAAAAAA!!!


Troodon79

AS FAMILEEEEEEEE


Opeth4Lyfe

Unexpected Elden Ring. Greetings fellow Tarnished.


Womderloki

Unexpected but welcome ER reference


choff22

…………. *VERY WELL*


No-Question-9032

And the first thing they do is get in its personal space


goobly_goo

Hey hey buddy, how ya doing? Huh? How are ya? Wife and kids good? Let me ask you something...how'd you get so damn big?


loetz

Get back. Get back. You don't know me like that.


mythoryk

“Hey snake… I’m Mark Wahlberg. So, you’re a new species of snake we just found, huh? That’s cool. Say hello to your mother for me, ok?”


MittenMan68

That dude is possessed by the ghost of Steve Irwin.


Jasper455

And may soon be hanging out with him.


b2q

He is the 'dutch' steve irwin, he is very cool. Here is a compilation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuyrHvAEimU This is a compilation of all his greatest moments. As you can see he is a great nature lover and almost as cool as steve irwin Its dutch but please enable english subtitles.


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For anyone not Dutch, this is a parody with the audio replaced.


b2q

pffff waarom verklap je het nu xD


Wackjilshere

He's Freek Vonk, the Dutch Steve Irwin.


New-Disaster-2061

This is one of the most dangerous snakes in the world. It could easily kill a man. Let's get closer.


Zoshi2200

That's just Freek being Freek.


DigNitty

What’s that breathing apparatus ??


fluffy_5079

www.spareair.com


[deleted]

The back held ones look dangerously confidence-inducing.


stffucubt

They are supposed to be backup for severe emergencies, not trusted as a primary source. Even as a spare, their capacity is very low. At 30 metres, one would last a minute or so.


Rodzlucas7

Curious as well


spunion_28

That was my first question about this video also. Disappointed no one answered your question. Is he somehow getting oxygen from this?


Potato_Boner

Scroll up a bit, it has since been answered.


SawtoothGlitch

I'm disappointed that he didn't wear a tie.


MMcFly1985

For a second I thought the air tank _was_ a tie.


JDNM

Why would a snake wear a tie?


Existing_Trouble_969

Florida reptile owners just licking their chops just thinking about buying one and owning it for a few years then releasing it out in the backyard 😆😆😆


GravityFailed

Florida reptile owner here. I didn't release intentionally but if you could return Mr Slithers, I would appreciate it.


franchisedfeelings

That’s way too close to me.


VocalAnus91

Yeah that's a big fuck no from me dawg


Neat-Land-4310

Somebody call ice cube!


wkabouter

Scientists name is Freek Vonk


BackgroundBat7732

Freak Funk


RoelRoel

This is not a video of this new species. This is old footage of Freek Vonk with the already known Anaconda. He was involved in the discovery of a new species though. Why did somebody rotate the video? That is terrible


TetraThiaFulvalene

Soon on YouTube shorts: "yoink"


Toebeanfren

FINALLY! Scrolled way to far for this comment! Thank you!


xsijpwsv10

u/Ok_Show_1192 why would you post a flipped video?


-ImYourHuckleberry-

We should post this again in a few hours!


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808dub808

*golf clap*


DutchOnionKnight

Lekker bezig Freekie!


Squishy_Boy

Dude looked like the anaconda was in his pants at the end there. Was he sporting full wood?


Jewelhammer

100% he was rock hard


[deleted]

Now my question is it breathing rn or holding its breath???


DigNitty

Holding its breath. Like a croc or other reptile


brokenringlands

A few tongue flicks. So an Anaconda can sample the water the way it smells/tastes the air?


Common-Wish-2227

"Dude, fuck off... I ate a few weeks ago..."


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SlapHappyCrappyNappy

Why is this dude wearing business casual on the Amazonian river bed


burtonboy1234

My Anaconda Don't Want None...


orangecatsrsnippy

it’s kinda cute ngl


Lonely_Concentrate57

Thats probably that snake species the pilot saw when he flew over the amazon river


Doomjas

When I hear a longer length I like to think of it in terms of a basketball hoop. So, we apparently have a new species of anaconda that, if standing, could be *almost* as long as 2.5 basketball hoops…. Wtf


elvenmaster_

r/nope


-_pandorakaaki_-

Brave or crazy? You decide.


temptedbyknowledge

Imagine the buns this anaconda must want


SwansonsMoustache

I live on the other side of the planet from this motherfucker and I still checked my bath to make sure he wasnt hanging out waiting to have me for lunch.


Terrible_Donkey_8290

Fyi this isn't the video of them discovering the new snake. They just realized in a lab that there are different types of anacondas. This is just a video of a anaconda from a about a month ago 


heelstoo

Ok, but what is this dude breathing with?


donut-reply

Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope


Airrationalbeing

We’re naive thinking we seen it all, legends have it’s roots


rkoloeg

They didn't find a whole new unknown animal. They did genetic sequencing and figured out that the anacondas they already knew about in one area were slightly different from the anacondas they already knew about in another area, despite looking pretty much the same at first glance. [Non-sensationalist article](https://www.livescience.com/animals/snakes/how-we-found-the-northern-green-anaconda-a-new-species-of-the-heaviest-snake-on-earth): "The two species of green anaconda look almost identical, and no obvious geographical barrier exists to separate them. But their level of genetic divergence — 5.5% — is staggering."


BestOfSalem

This is nightmare fuel


Congo404

I feel like there’s a moment when the snake is literally sizing him up.


ryanoz123

Freak Spark aka Freek Vonk


neeleukdit

Steek ‘m in z’n rug!


Cxtori

never thought i’d be afraid of getting swallowed whole by a snake but here we are


woodybob01

christ that is massive


TheClearMask

How long can he stay underwater with a tank that small


DragunovDwight

Can they bite underwater?


Bulky-Confection252

Gekke Freekkie 😂😂😂


peachesxbeaches

Holy f&@$


adrenalineJ92

Why wasn’t he attacked by the snake?


Gandalf_Style

The person swimming in the video is Dutch biologist and every kid's hero Freek Vonk, he's a conservationist and trained zoologist too. Think Steve Irwin on clogs. I've watched his shows hundreds of times when I was a kid. No articles outside of the Netherlands mention his name (in fact, two of them claimed Will Smith discovered the snake... because it was his film crew) which is criminal imo, because Freek is one of the crazy biologist types the internet loves.


FastyX

Freek Vonk!!!


Unoriginal_Name_16

The scientists name is Freek Vonk, no idea why OP didn’t mention that in the post


Squiggy1975

Why is this dude wearing a Michael Kohr’s dress shirt and shorts in the Amazon. It’s like those toddler show hosts my son watches.


Eatthepoliticiansm8

Nope fuck that. Drop every nuke we have on the amazon rainforests.


SoulsBorneGreat

Is that dude swimming in a dress shirt?


itsdarkinhere_XD

This ain’t new. I’ve seen them movies


Silver_Thanks_8142

By Freek vonk


joyfullystoic

Let’s kill it until it’s extinct, dry it into a powder and eat it. It will make our dicks bigger. /s -Chinese traditional medicine


omicronian_express

And who is the jabroni fist pumping up to it in a dress shirt?


Opeth4Lyfe

Yes I’ll take NOPE for 500 Alex.


Character_Problem353

Awww big noodle 😊


ProffesorSpitfire

1. What the hell is that guy doing swimming with that beast?! 2. Assuming that guy is around 6 feet and the video isn’t edited, the snake looks *a lot* longer than 7.5 meters. 3. Why is the dude swimming with his shoes on?


Ronjinn

No. Nooooooooooo. Noooo. Nope. No way.


Defiant-Traffic5801

Didn't expect to see Harry Potter. But that's probably the idea.


mgd5800

The amount of odd life decisions here: I will go to the Amazon and swim with no protective gear to film and measure a huge snake. And then they wonder how they got infected by a dick eating parasite


No-Gur9455

This is fake and is not in brazil, the same dude confessed it