The snake is an animal in the zodiac of our country, but from ancient times to the present, as long as the snake is mentioned, people have an inexplicable fear of it. In fact, in ancient Chinese culture, the snake was also a symbol of beauty, before the "dragon", the snake was the earliest totem of the Chinese nation, but also known as the archaeopteryx god, the dragon in Chinese mythology is likely to be evolved from the form of the snake, like many ancient mountain gods are holding snakes in their hands.
However, just a few days ago, in the palm forest of a county town in Riau Province, Indonesia, a giant python was found by the villagers, and the crowd finally led the python out of the hole in a series of ways such as moving stones and cutting down trees, facing this 9-meter-long python, the snake catcher cleverly shook the cloth strip to bite it, diverted the attention of the python, and many people rushed forward to catch the python.
Python is a primitive snake, they like to live in the tropical, temperate regions of the earth, you know, python weapons are their brute force winding skills, they are non-venomous, not even venomous glands, pythons can reach about 12 meters long, generally amphibious.
However, Indonesia is a tropical climate, and is the world's largest archipelago country, but also has the "country of a thousand islands" reputation, its tropical rainforest climate, high temperature and rain, is the python's favorite living environment. In the primeval forest of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the forest coverage rate is extremely high, more than 60% of the total area, which is why Indonesia is rich in pythons.
Indonesia is a place rich in pythons, as we all know, in the primeval forest of Sumatra in western Indonesia, people have found a giant python up to 14.85 meters long, which is the famous python "osmanthus flower", its name is also derived from its osmanthus skin pattern.
In 2015, Indonesia captured a giant python more than 6 meters long, which swallowed too much prey to prevent it from moving in place, and was later captured by villagers. In 2018, on the Indonesian island of Muna, a woman was swallowed by a giant python about 9 meters long, and under the search of hundreds of villagers and police, the terrifying python was finally found, its bloated belly was cut open, and the woman with a complete body was found in the belly of the snake.
How big is the python that can swallow the whole person alive? What is the world's largest python?
Just said that a 9-meter-long python will swallow life, then it is very normal to be curious about how big the world's largest snake is, if the snakes of ancient times can survive to the present, then the Titan Python definitely has a place, this giant python lived 60 million years ago, scientists once found their fossils, the longest length even exceeded 14 meters at one time, you can imagine how big they were at that time, and later with the drastic changes in temperature, led to the extinction of the Titan Python.
In Malaysia, there is an old legend that someone once saw a giant python at least 30 meters long, and it is said that it has a dragon-like head and 7 nostrils, and this legend is recorded in local and even Chinese literature about the tribes around the Amazon River.
In addition to legend, it has been recorded that the largest aphid skeleton found was able to reach a giant python that was 26 meters long and 1.2 meters wide after restoration. The largest python that can be counted in today's data is the giant python "osmanthus flower" mentioned earlier. It is 14.85 meters long and weighs 447 kg, which is the largest python found in nearly a hundred years.
Pythons sound very scary, although they do not have poisonous glands and fangs, but their tusks and strangulation methods are extremely terrible, if the prey is relatively small in their eyes, they will take a direct bite and then swallow, if the prey is too large, then the python will take the method of entanglement and strangulation to kill the prey.
Snakes have large mouths, and their skull composition is complex, consisting of up to 43 bones, with pythons having even more, and most python skulls consisting of 47 skulls. Snakes generally do not swallow live animals directly when they prey, they will wind and suffocate their prey and swallow them. In fact, the jaw of the snake has an active "dislocation" function, because their skulls can be moved independently, and the miracle is that the snake's chin will not feel pain after dislocation, but will further stimulate their pleasure of predation.
If you encounter a python in the wild, there is only one way, and that is thirty-six counts, and running is the best strategy. If you are unfortunate not to run away and have to fight with one, then there is another plan here, that is, to attack the anus of the python when it is fired, because the python's chrysanthemum nerve content is rich, and trying to attack will definitely cause a lot of damage to the python, which is a very effective method of self-protection.
Finally, giant pythons are still rare in the interior of our country, if we go to the rainforest to explore, we must pay attention to avoid the harm of pythons, they are also a very important part of the ecosystem, if you do not take the initiative to provoke them, in general, they will not take the initiative to attack humans, peaceful coexistence is the most correct approach.