photos of anaconda snake lurking beneath the surface of a river in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
By
Adam Shergold
Ready to strike: Brave diver and snake
enthusiast Franco Banfi captured this image of an enormous anaconda
snake lurking beneath the surface of a river in Mato Grosso do Sul,
Brazil
It lurks just inches below the surface coiled and ready to strike - and yet you wouldn't know it was there.
These
remarkable images show the enormous 26-foot (eight metre) anacondas of
Mato Grosso in Brazil searching for prey in the murky depths.
They
were captured by brave diver and snake enthusiast Franco Banfi, 53, who
joined the beasts in their natural habitat armed only with a camera.
This anaconda scans the surface of the water looking for prey such as mice, fish or birds
Enormous: This coiled anaconda was about eight
metres in length. Swiss diver Franco Banfi captured the photographs on a
ten-day visit to the Mato Grosso do Sul region in Brazil
In another shot, Banfi gets up
close to a huge anaconda that is lying on the riverbank and glistening
in the ferocious tropical heat.
Thankfully
for the photographer, it had just gobbled up a capybara rodent and
wasn't interested in devouring him as a second course.
Banfi, a father-of-two from Switzerland, said: 'As the snake had just eaten it didn't take much interest in us.
'Everything is possible but I don't think it would have eaten us. I was very close, I could have touched it if I wanted to.'
On the prowl: The bright sunlight suggests this anaconda is close to the surface and about the attack
Elegant: This smaller snake glides through the waters
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