Chuck Ripper: Yellow Anaconda

Artist: Chuck Ripper
1929 -
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1999
Image Size: 12.5 by 14.5 inches
Overall Size: 15 by 17.75 inches
Medium: Gouache Water Color On Cold Press Illus. Board

Classified as Eunectes notaeus, the Yellow Anaconda is also known as the Paraguay Anaconda and belongs to the family of New World boas. This species inhabits swamps, marshes and brush-covered banks of streams and rivers in Paraguay, Argentina, southeastern Bolivia and southern Brazil. The Yellow Anaconda is often bright yellow, with characteristic black rounded saddle-markings overlapping the spine along its entire length. Typically, this tropical serpent is over six feet long, although some specimens exceed nine feet and weigh almost 200 pounds. Like all anacondas, the Yellow Anaconda is aquatic and spends most of its life in or near water. It is fully equipped to thrive in an aquatic environment, boasting upward-pointing eyes near the top of its head and nostrils on top of its snout. The Yellow Anaconda preys mainly on fish, but also takes a variety of other species, including young caimans; mammals such as capybara, agouti and paca; and ducks. The female Yellow Anaconda does not lay eggs. Its young are born live while it is submerged. Little is known about the status of the species in the wild, but it is endangered by the live-pet trade. To ensure that international trade does not threaten the survival of the Yellow Anaconda, it is listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the UN S7 Yellow Anaconda stamp issued April 22, 1999.

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