Editing Anaconda (section)

===Sexual cannibalism===
[[File:Anaconda and Squamata skeletons.jpg|thumb|{{convert|14|ft|m|round=0.5|adj=on|order=flip}} green anaconda skeleton on display at [[Museum of Osteology]] with other [[Squamata|squamates]] and reptiles.]]
Cannibalism is quite easy in anacondas since females are so much larger than males, but [[sexual cannibalism]] has only been confirmed in ''[[Green anaconda|E. murinus]]''.<ref name="Quintana">{{cite journal | last1 = De la Quintana | first1 = Paola | last2 = Pacheco | first2 = Luis | last3 = Rivas | first3 = Jesús | title = ''Eunectes beniensis'' (Beni Anaconda). Diet: Cannibalism |date=January 2011 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274698904 | journal = Herpetological Review | volume = 42 | issue = 4| page = 614 }}</ref> Females gain the direct benefit of a post-copulatory high-protein meal when they consume their mates, along with the indirect benefit of additional resources to use for the formation of offspring; cannibalism in general (outside of the breeding season) has been confirmed in all but ''[[Eunectes deschauenseei|E. deschauenseei]]'', although it is likely that it occurs in all ''Eunectes'' species.<ref name="ReedRodda" /><ref name="Quintana" />