A giant wild anaconda, unlike a smaller or captive snake, doesn't attack out of fear or aggression because at its size it has no natural predators, so it will just try to break free rather than bite, though holding one is still lethally dangerous without a team ready to unwrap it.

124:23they also don't want to bite because their recurved teeth make it very difficult to detach. And also, they're putting their head at the source of the danger. It's not a good calculation. And so these giants— and I've had the privilege of interacting with four or five anacondas in the 20 to 26-foot range—all of them have been very Leviathan-like. And they just don't wanna move. They just wanna keep going. And he's

124:51100% right on all of that stuff. I've caught 90-something anacondas at this point, and many of them have been massive. Then there's the one that JJ and I didn't get at the Floating Forest because it was bigger than— bigger than we could tackle, bigger than my hands. I couldn't touch fingers. But every single one of them has chosen flight over fight. Only the little babies and the smaller

125:14males get snappy. They'll come back at you like a normal snake, and if you grab their tail, they'll try and bite you and then go. But these big females, you know, they're like dragons. They're like these big, legendary things that live in swamps, and the only reason they've gotten that big is because they have a reliable prey source in a secluded place away from humans, and they've been there for decades just pulling things

125:35down to hell and eating them. And the other thing... I mean, look, I have a team with me. You know? So... - So, there's people holding the— - Yeah. Let's be real here. I would never do this. If I was out in the jungle by myself at night, doing this would be suicide, 100%, because for every second that I'm going, "Oh, I'm in this water and she's over my neck," if JJ wasn't there to jump in and unwrap her—

126:01...then I die. 100%. - Because she's continuously wrapping. - She's on her back saying, "Come in here," "and let me arm bar you. Let me squeeze the guts out of you." She's just going, "Let it happen." - And moving slowly. - Moving really slow— - Conjuring - with that assurance of power where she doesn't need to try and tap you quick. She's going to get you eventually.