Entering 2021, when the global ecology is being called down by scientists, China's ecology presents a completely different scene. 2021 is getting better and better for our country, and even more so for ecology. From the "Wanda Mountain No. 1" down the mountain several times, to the rare animals and plants of the pony Song, and then to the Rare Than the giant panda of Liaoning "living fossil" Diplodocus orchid, etc., many of them are not enumerated one by one, and the fact presented is that China's ecological environment has indeed improved significantly.
What is very surprising is that when many animals and plants are rushing to emerge, the snakes we commonly known as the "king of the land" can't hold back and have appeared everywhere, but especially in Yunnan! No, after the Yunnan man sleeping on the bedside of the highly poisonous iron head snake, Yunnan Chuxiong farmer Bao Gu surprised the "king snake", and the Yunnan 1.5-meter king cobra broke into the home to fight with the domestic cat, Yunnan Lincang surprised a giant python. What about this python?
On September 3, local time, when the patrol staff of the Yunnan Nan rolling river national nature reserve was carrying out daily patrols in the reserve, they accidentally found an adult python, and the staff reported the news to the Propaganda Department of the Lincang Municipal Party Committee in Yunnan Province as soon as it was discovered. After expert identification, the adult python is about 20 to 30 years old, the body length is about 5 meters, and the thickest part of the body is about as thick as the thighs of human adults.
Such a stout python, and still 30 years old adult python is indeed relatively rare. Fortunately, this time it was encountered by the patrol staff during the patrol of the reserve, not like the previous snakes that appeared in the homes of residents. However, it is worth noting that in recent years, it has not only been limited to the appearance of small snakes in the homes of residents. Now there is a trend, that is, giant snakes, pythons also like to run down the mountain, and then go straight to the residents' homes, chicken coops and other places, the previous appearance of some provincial snake infestation related news can be used as an example.
Python, a grade II protected animal in China. Belonging to the large reptiles of the anacondae family, the pythons usually seen are between 3 and 5 meters long. The color distribution of the python's body surface is more chaotic, but it is also more numerous. There will be dark brown spear-shaped spots on the head and neck, and a black longitudinal spot on one side of the head. The dorsal area is tan, greyish brown, and even yellow. Anyway, in general, the body surface of the python is more tan, grayish brown and yellow, and the pattern shows a black-edged clouded leopard stripe, which gives people a deterrent effect as a whole.
Pythons in the world are mainly distributed in tropical and subtropical low mountain jungles, such as Asia, China, India, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries where the climate and terrain are very suitable. In terms of predation, it is omnivorous, encountering prey will quietly approach, and then bite, twist and hang with the body, and finally swallow the opponent in one bite, slowly digesting in the belly, goats, chickens, pigs, deer, and even the goose known as the nemesis of the snake is also one of the foods. Pythons like to sleep, and the general snake hibernation is one or two months, but the python is up to 4 months or even 5 months. Usually, in addition to predation, pythons sleep, and as long as they have a full meal, they can not eat for months.
The python is one of the more primitive snake species in the world today, and it is also the largest snake species in the world. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest python caught in the world was 9.75 meters long, which is about 10 meters. But in 2011 this record was broken by a python caught in Indonesia, the Osmanthus Flower, which is 14.85 meters long. The world's heaviest python is also a "osmanthus flower", weighing 447 kilograms, equivalent to 894 kilograms.
So how old is the oldest python on record in the world? The oldest snake in the world is 1678 years old! In 1978, scientists in the South Pacific discovered a spermatized sea snake with up to 1678 rings. Because this sea snake is a snake called the green-haired line snake, the age of this snake is calculated by looking at how many rings there are in the body. And the 1678 rings, just to prove that it is actually 1678 years old, becoming the world's oldest snake after the recognized longevity of the blue snake, compared to the blue snake it is ten thousand times rarer!
However, after later research, it was found that in fact, the physical function of this green fur line snake is still in the stage of juvenile snakes, and there are still infinite possibilities in the future. Scientists estimate that it is estimated that it may live to more than 200,000 years, becoming the oldest snake worthy of the name. But how long is the longest-lived snake in the world for pythons, or even all of them? What kind of snake is it? At present, it is inconclusive. After all, nature has no wonders, and human life is limited, and no one can do hundreds of generations of descendants to stare at a snake and then calculate.
(Note: In order to avoid the snake picture is too scary to affect the look and feel, so the article is accompanied by some life scenes where the snake may be infested!) ）