Question about the movie Anaconda, The hunt for the blood orchid?

Plz help me. I really need to know these infos cuz we need it for the quiz. We watched it but my classmates are soo noisy! and i have a hard time understanding their accent.



1. What is the scientific name of the blood orchid?

2. What is the name of the spider that can paralyze? (base on the movie)

3.Why are the anacondas in the movie that big?



Thank you.. your answers will really help me. Even if you don't know all the answer. I think 1 answer is already helpful.

Question about the movie Anaconda, The hunt for the blood orchid?
1. Caladenia filifera

blood orchid (or Blood Spider Orchid)

http://www.webace.com.au/~chook/orchids/...



2. Not sure if either of these are the spider, but they belog to the same species and come from South America:



Brazilian wandering spider (Phoneutria spp.) or Armadeira (Phoneutria fera)

and South American 'banana spider' (Phoneutria nigriventer):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_w...



One bite from a wandering spider delivers a dose of neurotoxin to the bloodstream strong enough to cause paralysis in a matter of minutes. For some especially unlucky individuals, the dose is fatal.



The Phoneutria fera and nigriventer are the two most commonly implicated as the most virulent of the Phoneutria spiders.



3. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366174/



Computer-generated snakes were used so I guess they could make them any size they wanted for special effect.



In the first movie Annaconda (1997) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118615/) they used animatronic anacondas as well as CGI. During the filming of one scene the controls for the animatronic Anaconda shorted out, causing it to completely lose control. Some of the footage is included in the movie.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda

Anacondas are four species of aquatic boa inhabiting the swamps and rivers of the dense forests of tropical South America.

See the section on size: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda#Si...



See also the wikipedia page on Giant Anacondas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_anaco... where it states there have been reports of sightings of snakes upwards of 30 metres (98.4 feet) in size.



Anacondas normally only grow to size of 9 metres (30 ft), and 250 kilos in weight, but tales of truly gigantic specimens persist. Indeed, although some python species can grow longer in length, the anaconda, particularly the Green Anaconda, is the heaviest and largest in terms of diameter of all snakes, and is often considered the biggest snake in the world.



Perhaps the most well known and defining portrayal of giant anaconda in popular fiction is the 1997 film Anaconda, which portrayed a giant CGI anaconda hunting and killing several crew members from National Geographic, and its sequel Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid.



Also have a look at http://www.extremescience.com/BiggestSna... for more information on anacondas.
Reply:I presume "Perenia Immortalis"is ficticious as no such species actually exists! The only references to it were to do with the movie. Caladenia filifera is probably the nearest to the real thing. The Stone Spider doesn't paralyze either! I guess that’s Hollywood! Report It
Reply:1. Caladenia filifera

2. Will get back to you on this question.

3. .There is some debate about the maximum size of anacondas, and there have been unverified claims of enormous snakes alleged to be as long as 30–45 m (98.4–147.6 ft). According to Lee Krystek,[2] a 1944 petroleum expedition in Colombia claimed to have measured an 11.43 m (37.5 ft) specimen, but this claim is not regarded as reliable; perhaps a more credible report came from scientist Vincent Roth, who claimed to have shot and killed a 10.3 m (33.8 ft) specimen.



There are some reports from early European explorers of the South American jungles seeing giant anacondas up to 18.2 m (60 ft) long, and some of the native peoples have reported seeing anacondas up to 15.2 m (50 ft) long, but these reports remain unverified.



Another claim of an extraordinarily large anaconda was made by adventurer Percy Fawcett. During his 1906 expedition, Fawcett wrote that he had shot an anaconda that measured some 18.9 m (62 ft) from nose to tail. Once published, Fawcett’s account was widely ridiculed. Decades later, Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans came to Fawcett's defence, arguing that Fawcett's writing was generally honest and reliable.



Historian Mike Dash writes of claims of still larger anacondas, alleged to be as long as 30–45 m (100–150 ft) — some of the sightings supported with photos (although those photos lack scale). Dash notes that if a 50–60 ft anaconda strains credulity, then a 150 ft long specimen is generally regarded as an outright impossibility.



It should be noted that the Wildlife Conservation Society has, since the early 20th century, offered a large cash reward (currently worth US$50,000) for live delivery of any snake of 30 feet or more in length. The prize has never been claimed. Also, in a study of 1,000 wild anacondas in Brazil, the largest captured was 17 feet (5.2 m) long.



Recently an anaconda snake measuring over six meters and weighing nearly 200 kilos was captured in the backyard of an abandoned house in Parana, Brazil.