The anaconda is one of the most popular and oldest exhibits at the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt. This nearly 100-year-old crowd favorite has impressed several generations. After a relaxing wellness vacation that included professional restoration, the anaconda can now be admired again at the museum. Here’s to another century with this Senckenberg classic!
Permanent exhibition
Anaconda
For almost 100 years, the snake, which is over five meters long and has prey in its mouth, has been a favorite among visitors to the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Frankfurt.
The green anaconda (Eunectes murinus) has no natural enemies once it reaches a certain size. It stands at the top of the food chain and eats anything it can surprise as a lurking hunter and overwhelm with its immense physical strength and mass. In many places, capybaras (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris), the world’s largest rodents, are the main food source for large constrictor snakes. The reptile uses its highly mobile jaws to pull its flexible body over its prey in order to devour its meal. The taxidermist at the time, in consultation with Senckenberg reptile researchers, created this extraordinary arrangement of a capybara and an anaconda in the process of constriction. A detailed article on the creation of this exhibit can be found below.